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	instructional media + magic, inc.


	instructional media + magic, inc develops standards-based multimedia courseware for colleges and universities, and the supporting information technology infrastructure. Based on research from early initiatives, im+m developed multimedia-rich classroom presentations and on-line courses leading to the improvement of student retention and performance. Partnering with faculty, im+m leverages media and course-development expertise to the process of authoring standards-based courseware. Focusing on undergraduate courses, im+m combines access to extensive copyright-free federal materials and in house production of instructional audio and video together with faculty authored course materials to create media-rich on-line interactive courseware.


	im+m Business Partners


	Sigma Systems www.sigmasys.com 2305 S. Colorado Blvd. #100 Denver, CO 80222 phone:303.758.4610 800.74SIGMA (74462) fax: 303.758.4542 JA-SIG - Java in Administration Special Interest Group www.ja-sig.org University of Hull www.hull.ac.uk The eLearning Hub, Inc. www.theeLearningHub.com 795 Folsom Street First Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.848.2730


	im+m Tech Briefs


	Increasingly im+m is asked for reference data. We are now publishing compilations or analyzes as im+m, Technical Briefs. These are intended as documents-primarily data and charts and graphs-in a form that can be used for presentation. Although the data may support one view or another, these are not intended as opinion pieces. These are all published under the Creative Commons Attribution only license. im+m has available the data sets, the spreadsheets, and the charts and graphs in their original form for those who need these files. These can be found in the SOURCE folder under the publisher and the date of the document. Similarly im+m has tried to include any referenced documents in the eLibrary since documents frequently disappear from the original Web source. Published Technical briefs include: "Faculty Selection and Use of Publisher-Provided Textbooks and Supplementary Materials in the United States," 15 December 2006. "The Use of Virtual Learning Environment Software in UK Universities 2001-2005," 16 June 2006. There is current work on standards and use of audio and video podcasts, sustainability of open source software, and more on faculty use of publisher-provided online services.


	JISC VRE Survey


	With the completion of the JISC VRE phase 1 and phase 2 level projects, a follow up survey has been developed to gather information about the use of the projects since. For your convenience, we have both a PDF version of the survey that you can download and take by hand, and an online version. We thank you very much for your participation. Take the Online Survey Download the PDF


	2009 FSA Software Developers Conference


	Because of the interest in security for higher education applications software, we have produced excerpts from the questions and answers at the U.S. Department of Education's August 20, 2009 FSA (Federal Student Aid) Software Developers Conference. Link to the audio MP3 file - 09m:33s/4.3MB Link to a PDF transcript of the above audio file - 4 Pages/85KB

im+m Events

Open Source, Open Development, Open Innovation
7 December 2009, University of Oxford

Jim Farmer attending

PESC EdUnify Task Force
17-18 December 2009, Hyatt Regency Dulles, Herndon, VA

Jim Farmer attending

Course Advertising and Course Management Standards
21 December 2009, Manchester Metropolitan University

Paul Heald, Sigma Systems Inc. and Jim Farmer attending


	Current imm Projects


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