Sapient helped Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop an electronic publishing model that supports the university’s mission of advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) wanted to develop an electronic publishing model to support the university’s mission of advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. With a proven track record of delivering large-scale content-management solutions that improve business processes, increase customer and employee satisfaction, and reduce maintenance costs, Sapient was the clear partner for this initiative.
Together, Sapient and MIT designed and developed MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT-OCW), a web-based publishing initiative that provides free, searchable access of nearly all of the university’s undergraduate and graduate course material to anyone around the world. Leveraging Sapient’s unique, collaborative approach and fixed-price, fixed-time model, the Sapient team helped MIT to rollout MIT-OCW in less time, at less cost, and with less risk than any other available option.
Content dissemination goes innovative
While many universities offer some courses online, MIT is the first institution to promote free and open sharing of all course content for non-profit educational and research purposes. Not only does MIT-OCW represent a major innovation in how educational content is disseminated, but it is also one of the largest Microsoft content-management systems ever deployed. The supporting technology infrastructure was designed using Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 and .NET technologies. The MIT-OCW system provides a scalable base for managing up to one million resources and will enable open access to the course materials from virtually all of MIT’s 2,500 courses.
The system’s authoring site is currently being used by 50 people and handles an average of 4,500 transactions per day. The external site (ocw.mit.edu) is used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide and handles millions of page views per month. The system allows MIT to organize significant amounts of course materials—including lecture notes, problem sets, streaming video, multimedia simulations, exams, and reading lists—in a way that is easy for educators, students, and self-learners to navigate through and adapt according to their individual needs. It offers a single, searchable organizing structure intended to eventually cover all of the university’s courses, including uniform metadata about the site’s content. In addition to strategy, program management, technology development and implementation and content migration expertise, Sapient’s application management services are being utilized to provide 24-hour email and customer-service support for MIT-OCW.
source: Indiatimes
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