UCLA Center for Digital Innovation

Partners UCCP McGraw-Hill Hitachi Sun Sony LAUSD Kyoto UNESCO

	UC College Prep Initiative (UCCP) CDI and UCCP have worked together to develop a set of groundbreaking comprehensive on-line courses in Environmental Science (ESOL) and Physics at the Advanced Placement (AP) level. This is in response to UCCP's mission, which is to provide AP and Honors courses to high school students who otherwise would not have the opportunity to achieve eligibility for admission to the University of California and other top universities.
	ReDSOFT, Ltd The Regional Center for Development of Educational Software (ReDSOFT) is a non-profit regional software technology center that aims to improve and enhance the educational process in schools in the Arab region through the development and use of Information and Communication Technologies. ReDSOFT is the distributor of ICDL 4.0 On-line developed by CDI and is currently translating the English version into Arabic.
	McGraw-Hill CDI and McGraw-Hill Publishing Company collaborated to develop the Multimedia Enhanced Physics Instruction (MEPI) and CyberChem CD-ROM sets. Both MEPI and CyberChem are packaged and distributed by McGraw-Hill and can be found in College book stores or ordered from McGraw-Hill.
	Hitachi Ltd. As an early pioneer in the development of the Digital Versatile Disk (DVD), Hitachi Ltd., worked with CDI to create software that would showcase DVD technology. As a result, CDI developed Space Discovery, which is an interactive journey that includes information and extensive NASA video about the Earth, the Moon and the Sun. CDI also developed Perfect Pitch, which uses switching technology to view a movie from many different camera perspectives.
	Sun Microsystems CDI and Sun Microsystems collaborated to create Wattsville: An Educational Web Site about Energy. Programmed entirely in Java, Wattsville presents interactive educational content to Middle and High School students, and is available free on the Web (see Products). Also in collaboration with Sun, a Java Center will be set up at UCLA.
	Sony In collaboration with Sony, CDI has developed Intelligent Agent software for use in education, e-commerce, and entertainment. This exciting new software allows the user to build customized agents that can sift through and analyze the large data sets that our digital society is creating at an increasing pace.
	Los Angeles Unified School District To enhance the use of multimedia educational software in K-12, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the UCLA Center for Digital Innovation (CDI) began collaborating in 1998. One goal is to use the highly interactive nature of educational software and the vast resources of the Internet to enhance the teaching and understanding of science at the High School level.
	Kyoto University Center for Information and Multimedia Studies (CIMS) Since its establishment, a leading priority of CDI has been the development of new and effective approaches to using digital technology in education. Digital Image Processing was developed by CIMS, Kyoto University and CDI to provide an online interactive course for undergraduate and graduate students.
	UNESCO To help educators use the vast resources now made available through the use of computers and the Internet, CDI teamed with UNESCO to deliver a workshop in Egypt, for Physics instructors from throughout the region. The intensive week-long workshop covered basic systems analysis, multimedia authoring, content creation, and educational pedagogy.