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Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt)

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Sikt was established on January 1, 2022, out of a merger between the Norwegian Centre for Research Data Ltd, Uninett Ltd, and Unit, the Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education & Research. Sikt is a collaborative body that develops, purchases, and delivers products and services designed to enhance education and research experiences. Sikt offers a common infrastructure and joint services for the knowledge sector. Sikt is the NREN in Norway, and we run procurement processes for the Norwegian universities and research institutions in Norway. Among others we work with solutions for VMS, LMS, and Digital examen solutions.

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Organisational member Germany

Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht gGmbH (FWU)

FWU is Germany’s leading producer of audio-visual, didactic, and interactive media for schools. Founded in 1950, it is a non-profit corporation with the 16 Federal States as shareholders. We are involved in national and international projects about media infrastructure for secondary and vocational schools, test procedures for digital educational media, digital identity management and metadata. We are experienced in copyright and licensing issues (especially OER) and have held teachers training and workshops for these areas. We are also interested in machine-readable curricula, ML-based metadata generation, pan-European content hub etc.

Organisational member United States

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Since its launch in 2012, MITx’s core mission is to expand access to quality educational opportunities worldwide with creation of open, online, massive courses (MOOCs). These high quality MITx MOOCs are drawn from MIT classes and built by MIT faculty and course teams with the support of MITx. The MITx Media team is responsible for the integration of multimedia into the design and development of MOOCs.

Organisational member Belgium

Mediawijs (imec vzw)

Mediawijs is the Flemish Knowledge Centre for Digital and Media Literacy at imec vzw (the world-leading R&D and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies) on the initiative of the Flemish Minister for Media. We are the central hub for the Flemish community for stimulating Flemish citizens to use digital technology and media actively, creatively, consciously and critically to participate in society. To that end we facilitate consultation, networks and cooperation, inspire with training, sharing knowledge and practice development, information and campaigns, keeps tabs on all things digital and media (literacy), and play an active role in developing policy.