Academic Media Production Services (AMPS)

Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) is a group within the MIT Libraries, provides video support for academic programs, departments and Institute initiatives. We offer a variety of services on a cost recovery basis, from video production and distance education support to post-production and publishing video to the web.

Effective July 1, 2013, Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), the MIT Libraries' unit responsible for video production, distance education and MIT TechTV, will become part of the Office of Digital Learning (ODL).

The ODL, formed in November 2012, is comprised of MITx, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), and the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT). The addition of AMPS will add a key asset -- video expertise and infrastructure -- to the office that is charged with exploring emerging technologies to transform education at MIT.

AMPS has been a unit of the MIT Libraries since 2007. During the past six years, the video production group opened a state-of-the-art studio in Building 24, and played a key role in producing video for major Institute initiatives and events such as MIT150. The distance education and lecture capture group supported numerous MIT classes, webcasting live events and lectures to the world, and sharing increasing amounts of content online through MIT TechTV. AMPS recent involvement with MITx created a natural transition for the group.

AMPS runs and maintains a variety of spaces:
(*) with built-in recording or rich media capture capability to record lectures and sessions,
(*) four technology-enabled classrooms and video conferencing spaces in support of MIT distance education initiatives.
(*) a video production studio to produce programs with the possibility of integrating post-production special effects or set up interviews and connect to major news networks.