Giunti Labs, MIT, and Cisco Systems Win Top Honors in Global Competition of High Impact Learning Technologies

At the heart of this year's winner was the learn eXact learning content management system from Giunti Labs. The demonstration showed how medical learning materials can be created from a variety of sources and then stored in one or more Internet-accessible digital repositories. A brokering service then allows instructors and learners to discover these resources from across the federated set of repositories. The lessons can then be harvested by a variety of learning management systems and mobile devices using Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs) provided by the Open Knowledge Initiative project at MIT. The networking infrastructure backbone provided by Cisco Systems included the Application & Content Networking System (ACNS), which provides technology to store and deliver rich file formats regardless of bandwidth constraints, key to enabling the multimedia content that is becoming the standard in online learning.