.NET-Based Open Source Education Platform
November 2002 — June 2004
MIT’s Sloan School developed a proprietary course management system called SloanSpace. iLearn furthered this concept with a
scaleable, open source e-learning platform with rich functionality for online communities, as well as management for learning and content.
Compliant with MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative and MIT’s infrastructure standards, iLearn was implemented using
enterprise-ready, flexible architecture based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. The development of iLearn contributed to providing valuable framework
infrastructure in which software components could be shared within the university and across institutions. The work at the Sloan School evolved into the
.LRN educational platform, an enterprise-class open source software for supporting online learning and digital communities, with more than half a million
users in higher education, government, nonprofit, and K–12.
Investigators:
Alfred Essa, CTO, MIT Sloan School of Management
Andrew Grumet
Tracy Adams
Genevieve Cuevas
Additional Information:
http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/iLearn.shtml
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Learning from Pictures
July 2002 — August 2003
Scientific expeditions are life-altering experiences for the researchers who get to experience them. These expeditions
generate incredible research and also incredible photography chronicling their field work, which, before this project, had no formal management or
archiving methods. With the image pipeline developed by this project, everything a field team captures can be almost transparently stored in a sensible,
sharable, and safe repository.
The first two expeditions in the project were to Bhutan and Cambodia. In Bhutan, MIT staff and students, as well as Bhutanese
students, officials, and friends, were equipped with the latest digital photography and traditional film gear to capture a portrait of the country. Film
was processed by scanning and archiving it onto a 2.54-terabyte server, and the data was merged with GPS logs. All 30,000 images collected can be viewed
online. Besides the advances in digital archiving, the project also generated the world’s largest bound books of fine-art-quality photography. The project’s
innovations in image management ensure that the magic of the visual record of MIT field research can be experienced by all.
Investigators:
Dr. Michael Hawley, Dept. of Architecture
David Salesin, Microsoft Research
Additional Information:
http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/Expeditions.shtml
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