The mission of MIT's Academic Media Production Services unit (AMPS) is to provide professional, high quality, cost-effective services in support of educational technology initiatives sponsored by the MIT community.

With access to a talented staff of web and graphic designers, educators, pedagogical consultants, videographers, video editors, streaming media specialists, project managers, programmers, teleconferencing specialists and support personnel, AMPS is involved in a number of very high-profile projects. AMPS expertise covers the full range of multimedia, asynchronous and synchronous technologies, and distance learning capabilities.

Services to the MIT community include: Project management (including scope planning and cost analysis); Pedagogical consulting and outreach; Design (graphic, instructional, and classroom facilities); Production (videography, coding/programming, website building, media coordination, file compression, teleconferencing and videoconferencing, video editing, audio processing, webcasting, CD-ROM and DVD authoring and duplication); Testing (Quality Assurance, Usability, Accessibility); Support planning; Deployment; and Educational assessment (formative and summative).

Among the projects AMPS is working on are the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI); MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative (OCW); and Stellar, a web-based content management system. See the full range of AMPS projects on the AMPS Project pages.