Nov 27, 2001

IU Technology Architecture Lodge
Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management

Nov 27, 2001

This afternoon, I had the pleasure of hearing MIT Prof. Hal Abelson speak about MIT's efforts in educational technology. (I say pleasure because it is rare to hear a talk that is authoritative, engaging and informative.) Professor Abelson is co-director of the MIT Council on Educational Technology and a member of the steering committees for MIT's iCampus and other major projects with Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. Before the talk, I was impressed with the attention that MIT had managed to secure on the educational technology front, as represented by such projects as OpenCourseWare (OCW), the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI), and DSpace. Abelson gave us, his audience, a high level glimpse into how all these (and other efforts) relate to one another. It turns out that MIT had been engaged in high level strategic planning in educational technology fairly early on (1999?) -- so the current range of activities reflects a lot of careful thought and coordinated activity.

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