Advisory Board

Assistant Provost for Educational Technology, and Director of Academic Computing Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Vijay Kumar is currently the Assistant Provost for Educational Technology and Director of Academic Computing at MIT. Through these roles he influences and helps to implement the Institute 's strategy for educational technology. Through leadership of the Academic Computing Practice (ACP) in Information Systems and the Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) in the Provost 's office, he helps promote and support the effective integration of information technology in MIT education. AMPS brings together MIT Video Productions, Streaming Media Services and Educational Media development in support of MIT 's initiatives such as SMA (the Singapore MIT Alliance), CMI (the Cambridge MIT Institute) and OCW (Open Courseware).

Vijay is a member of the Advisory Group for OCW, a member of the MIT Council on Educational Technology (MITCET) with key roles for infrastructure planning, strategy and grant allocation. He also serves on MIT 's IT Architecture Group - ITAG.

Vijay is the Principal Investigator of the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI), a collaborative effort supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an Open-Source open architecture for internet based educational applications. He is also a member of the Applications Strategy Council for Internet2.

Vijay has extensive engagement with professional organizations and serves as a consultant/advisor to several higher educational institutions, national as well as international agencies, on topics related to the planning, management and application of IT to education.