WebCampus.Stevens signs Digital Object Identifier pact with Content Directions, Inc.

Stevens Institute of Technology's online learning unit, WebCampus.Stevens, and Content Directions, Inc., an Internet services firm specializing in the Digital Object Identifier (DOI®), announced the signing of an agreement this month in which Stevens will engage Content Directions to register Digital Object Identifiers for all its e-learning graduate courses.

"DOI enables WebCampus to stand out in crowded search engines," said Stevens Dean for Online Learning, Robert Ubell. "Students searching for distance learning programs on the Internet will now easily see our linked courses. We are especially excited about being the first to implement the technology in the online learning space."

WebCampus.Stevens (webcampus.stevens.edu) offers online graduate certificates leading to master's degrees and online professional short courses in technology and management. The e-learning school delivers more than 50 online courses in 14 e-programs - all co-sponsored by many of the world's most prominent professional societies, the including Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and others, representing more than 650,000 engineers and managers worldwide. Launched three years ago, WebCampus is funded, in part, by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. More than 500 students from 18 states and 10 nations abroad - from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America - have taken WebCampus graduate courses.

"Stevens is helping to shape the way e-learning is discovered and used on the Web," commented David Sidman, Founder and CEO of Content Directions.

DOI provides persistent linking, regardless of where a web object resides at any point on the Internet. DOI MultiLinks provide one-to-many linking at the object level, instead of just a single link to a single location. With a MultiLink, prospective students can choose to click directly to a range of WebCampus courses, including related courses, schedules, applications, and other services.

Further details are available via contentdirections.com  and www.webcampus.stevens.edu.

About the Digital Object Identifier

The Digital Object Identifier makes managing intellectual property in a networked environment much easier and more convenient. It allows for automated services and transactions in e-commerce and is based on technology developed by Robert Kahn, one of the principal inventors of the Internet.

The DOI initiative began as a project of the Association of American Publishers. Launched five years ago, a prototype was introduced soon thereafter in which nine publishers participated. Since 1998, DOI has been managed by the International DOI Foundation (doi.org®), which is responsible for its development and governance.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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