…to stimulate learning among Hoosiers through a personalized digital learning space that connects them to information, knowledge, and educational opportunities.

The Indiana Learning Portal Partnership is the result of informal collaborative conversations among many educational organizations over the past 2 years.

The Partnership came together to effectively break down educational silos among various education and information providers within the state of Indiana. The focus being to provide all learners from age 3 to age 93 with a personalized digital learning space that connects them with educational content, educational resources and tools, and educational opportunities within the state of Indiana.

Inspired by the potential enhancements to scholarship, preservation, access and both operational and economic efficiency, six planning task forces representing diverse academic settings have worked for the past year to analyze academic needs, review trends and formulate potential solutions. A striking vision has emerged from this process -- one that articulates an inter-related and dynamic response that supports teaching, learning and research in Indiana's 73 institutions of higher education, which range from small private schools of less than 100 students to large public universities of more than 50,000 students. Managing this strategic cooperation is a new nonprofit organization called the Academic Libraries of Indiana (ALI).

The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) is committed to enhancing education, rural healthcare and library communities through the use of two-way, interactive, video distance learning technologies. A not-for-profit corporation based in Indianapolis, Indiana, CILC provides grants, services, project management and resources in support of planning, training, hardware, implementation and content development for the Vision Athena video distance learning network.

The Indiana College Network (ICN) is the gateway to e-learning from Indiana colleges and universities. A service of the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS), ICN provides comprehensive access to its member institutions' combined distributed learning activities, including a searchable online catalog of over 2,200 classes and more than 135 certificate and degree programs.

INCOLSA, Indiana's statewide library network, serves 768 member institutions. These member institutions represent more than 2,200 libraries throughout Indiana. INCOLSA provides reference, interlibrary loan, training and continuing education, INSPIRE, technology support, and other services, such as OCLC member support, from the central office in Indianapolis and from seven field offices located throughout Indiana.

The mission of the Indiana Department of Education is to serve the citizens of Indiana by fulfilling its statutory responsibilities, implementing the policies of the State Board of Education, and supporting the priorities of Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS) is a consortium of all higher education institutions in the state of Indiana. Its goal is to improve access to education, learning, and information for all the people of Indiana and the "communities of interest" that stretch well beyond Indiana borders through the use of technology.

The Indiana Humanities Council (IHC) is dedicated to building stronger communities. It accomplishes this mission through targeted initiatives in leadership, education and culture. IHC offers many programs, grants, and resources to people throughout Indiana.

The Smart Desktop Initiative will provide full service education Web portals that will enable Indiana educators, students, parents and other education stakeholders to analyze education information; access standards-aligned, humanities-rich instructional resources; and work collaboratively to improve instruction and student learning.

Teachers are in need of a "one stop shop," a site where they can access their email and school news, create lesson plans, assess students, communicate with students and parents, help students create online portfolios that show evidence of student growth over time, and access their own professional development in an online community. The Teacher Desktop(tm) will provide all of this and more.

The Indiana State Library develops and provides library services to state government, its branches, its departments and its officials and employees. In addition it provides for the individual citizens of the state those specialized library services not generally appropriate, economical or available in other libraries of the state. Through its programs, the state library encourages and supports the development of the library profession and strengthens services of all types of publicly and privately supported special, school, academic, and public libraries.

Indiana Web Academy (IWA) is a joint program of the Intelenet Commission and the Indiana Department of Education. Indiana Web Academy's mission is to empower the students, parents, and educators in the State of Indiana to integrate technology and the Internet with education. By empowering Indiana Web Academy participants, the IWA is giving them the ability to partake, enhance and develop the Internet for education.

IUPUI is an urban research university created in 1969 as a partnership by and between Indiana and Purdue Universities, with IU as the managing partner. IUPUI grants degrees in 185 programs from both Indiana University and Purdue University. It offers the broadest range of academic programs in Indiana and is the state's principal site for graduate professional education. IUPUI ranks among the top fifteen in the country in the number of first professional degrees it confers and among the top five in the number of health-related degrees. IUPUI is the home campus for state-wide programs in medicine, dentistry, nursing, allied health, and social work and extends its program offerings through IUPU Columbus.

The Cooperative Extension Service is one of the nation's largest providers of scientific research-based information and education. It's a network of colleges, universities, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, serving communities and counties across America. The Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service program areas are Agriculture and Natural Resources, Consumer and Family Sciences, Leadership and Community Development and 4-H and Youth Development.

The mission of Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting Inc. is to serve as a community resource by providing educational, informational, and cultural services and entertainment of the highest quality through television and radio programs, educational telecommunications services and community outreach events and activities.