The KEEP Toolkit is the most famous project to come out of the Knowledge Media Lab. The Knowledge Exchange Exhibition and Presentation (KEEP) Toolkit, is a set of open-source tools intended to provide an economical and accessible solution for faculty and educational institutions to document, share, and reflect on some of the critical aspects of their efforts in transforming teaching and student learning. The application itself works like a browser-based webpage creation tool with an easy to use interface framed with an academic perspective. When I joined the team I was given the roll of designing new features and developing UI. The KEEP Toolkit was highly successful in allowing faculty and students alike, to easily create web-based representations of teaching and learning as well as share those representations with others.

Even though the KEEP community continued to grow and development never stagnated, the decision was made to discontinue the hosting and support of KEEP when the Knowledge Media Lab program ended. However, this project was open source throughout its development. In the final hour Peter Spangler (another former KML member) and I worked to get the latest version of Distributable KEEP into Source Forge. In doing so we hoped to give others the ability to host KEEP and continue its development. And that they did. Currently MERLOT, The University of Waterloo and Kyoto University have begun running versions of KEEP. Over 1500 of our former users successfully migrated their accounts to MERLOT. Even though I have been assigned to begin development of newer projects, I am hoping that the KEEP Toolkit will continue to grow in the open source community.

CF KEEP:
About The KEEP Toolkit
The KEEP Toolkit Team

Current KEEP:
MERLOT Content Builder
University of Waterloo
Kyoto University
Kansas University
MIT KEEP (OEIT)
Mesa Community College
Sourcforge Project Page

Realated Projects:
Teaching and Learning Commons
Gallery of Teaching and Learning
Knowledge Media Lab

KEEP Clones:
(Given the popularity of The KEEP Toolkit and the
opensourcefulness of its nature, spin-off projects
based on KEEP code popup from time to time.)
KEEP SLS
VKP Poster Tool