Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar provides leadership for sustainable technology-enabled educational innovation at MIT In his prior roles at MIT as Assistant Provost and Director of Academic Computing, as well at other institutions, Vijay provided leadership for units engaged in delivering infrastructure and services for the effective integration of information technology and media services in education.

Vijay was the Principal Investigator of O.K.I (Open Knowledge Initiative), an MIT-led collaborative project to develop an open architecture for enterprise educational applications.

Vijay is a member of the Advisory Committee of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and a member of the steering committee for I-Campus, the MIT-Microsoft Alliance initiative for educational technology. He is the Executive officer for MIT's Council on Educational Technology. Vijay also served on the Applications Strategy Council for Internet2, as Chair of the governing Board of the Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC) Snowmass, CO and NERCOMP, and as trustee of the Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN).

Vijay is honorary advisor to India's National Knowledge Commission and advisor to the Open University of Catalonia.

Vijay's research, as well as his extensive engagement as advisor and consultant with academic and professional institutions are directed toward strategy, planning and implementing innovations for education. Vijay is actively involved in efforts, such as those supported by the Hewlett Foundation, and Curriki to advance the use of Open Educational Resources for improving educational access and quality. He is a co-editor of a Carnegie Foundation book "Opening Up Education" (MIT Press, August 2008). He has authored numerous articles in the area of educational innovations and technology strategy.