1. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20011 Educational Media Creation Center EMCC Mike Barker Manager, EMCC mbarker@mit.edu

2. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20012 What is the EMCC? A center for production A collaboration A collection of resources and competencies The right place to go for scalable, sustainable educational media solutions.

3. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20013 The EMCC Work Ranges from individual drop-in consultations at the New Media Center to the creation of innovative web-based classes. To help us in our mission, we are developing Stellar, an open architecture, standards based platform for Web based education. Supports on-campus education, major distance learning programs such as the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and special projects with select corporate partners of MIT.

4. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20014 The EMCC Provides Design and web programming support for major Institute educational initiatives “Building Block” services in prototype, production, and operational versions; Consultation instructional design, graphic design, technological design developing ideas for instructional experiments with web-based multimedia into proposals and projects. Design, Implementation, and Production Service transition assistance for websites Services to help users self-educate, analyze, access available projects and resources

5. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20015 The EMCC Staff The EMCC exists to help members of the MIT Community get educational content on the web. Our staff members have the talents for that job, including instructional design, project management, site design, graphical design, page layout, programming, and server administration.

6. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20016 Process Research and Strategy Design Specifications Production Integration, Test, Rework Operation

7. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20017 Design Specifications Pedagogical Approach Graphical Design Technical Design (site map, software) Content Design Operations and Maintenance Plan

8. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20018 Stellar A Learning Management System for MIT November, 1999: “Design of a reference architecture for enterprise-wide, sustainable web-based multimedia services, which will provide a framework for buying, developing, and modifying materials and services so that they meet local needs and cooperate with Institute-wide goals.”

9. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 20019 What is Stellar? The Problem How can we provide web-based course support for MIT? The Answer Stellar: a web-based course management system for MIT

10. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 200110 Key Stellar Tools Content Creation, Management, and Presentation: Showing Materials to People Collaboration Tools (Discussion board, chat, etc.) Helping People Work Together Assessment Tools (quiz, test, survey, etc.) Checking How People are Learning Assignment Handling Helping with Homework handling Gradebook Keeping Track of the Work

11. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 200111 Process Components of Stellar Registration (authentication, user profile, class signup, list management) Content Presentation (syllabus, calendar, table of contents, course portal) Collaboration (discussion board, email, chat) Administration (grade book, calendar) Content Management Assessment (quizzes, exams, course evaluations) Setup (create course, course templates) Content Creation (digitization and consumption) Renewal (re-use, archive, portfolio)

12. Educational Media Creation Center: EMCC March 15, 200112 Get In Touch With Us! Use our suggestions form at http://web.mit.edu/stellar/www/comments.html Write us at stellar-suggest@mit.edustellar-suggest@mit.edu Contact us: Phil Long 452-4038 orlongpd@mit.edu Mike Barker 253-0119 mbarker@mit.edu