Unizin

Unizin (pronounced [ju.nɨ.zɪn] (IPA) or “yo͞o-nə-zin”) is both a consortium of higher education institutions and a service provider. The Unizin consortium was founded in 2014 by Colorado State University, University of Florida, Indiana University, and University of Michigan. On July 22, 2014, Unizin named Amin Qazi its founding CEO. The Unizin service debuted its first offering, Canvas by Instructure, in late summer 2014. The goal of the Unizin service is to standardize digital learning by creating common standards that enable collaboration within the higher education community. The Unizin consortium offers a channel for collaborating on solutions to the many challenges being faced by educational institutions, as well as a means for those institutions to collectively govern resources and cost-effectively control infrastructure necessary to enable innovation at their universities. Unizin, Ltd. is a registered 501(c)(3).

Background

In June 2014, Internet2 and each of the four founding member universities separately announced Unizin. On October 1, 2014, Unizin announced three additional universities had joined, University of Wisconsin

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