Entry Date:
December 15, 2005

MetaMedia: Transforming Humanitites Education at MIT

Principal Investigator Peter Donaldson

Co-investigators Tong Chen , Kurt Fendt , Ian Condry , Ellen W Crocker , Dagmar Jaeger , Wyn Kelley , Douglas Morgenstern , Margery Resnick , Janet Sonenberg , Emma Teng , William Uricchio , Belinda Yung

Project Website http://metamedia.mit.edu/


MetaMedia provides students and faculty with a flexible on-line environment to create, annotate and share media-rich documents for the teaching and learning of core humanistic subjects. Faculty can build subject-specific mini-archives to extend the use of multimedia materials in the classroom and thus further pedagogical innovation.

Based on open standards, the Metamedia framework allows the formation of learner communities across disciplines and distances and ensures interoperability with a wide range of current and future media resources.