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MIT Launches OpenCourseWare Initiative on the Web MIT administrators expect that other universities will use MIT course materials to enhance their own curricula, particularly those in developing countries...   |
Information Today
May 7, 2012 |
MIT and Harvard Launch a `Revolution in Education' Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Erico Guizzo |
The Olin Experiment Can a tiny new college reinvent engineering education? |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2012
Tekla S. Perry |
John L. Hennessy: Risk Taker Stanford University's president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online |
Fast Company
September 2009
Anya Kamenetz |
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education Free online courses, Wiki universities, Facebook-style tutoring networks -- American higher education is being transformed by a cadre of Web-savvy edupunks. |
Information Today
August 30, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
MOOCs and the Changing Face of Higher Education Massive Open Online Courses can expand access to learning opportunities, eliminate many geographic and economic barriers to education, create more diverse learning communities, transform lifelong learning, and augment face-to-face and traditional education in new ways. |
Chemistry World
May 21, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
To lecture or not to lecture? A meta analysis has shown that there are better ways to teach science to college students than lectures. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2001
Melinda G. Cerny & Jesse M. Heines |
Evaluating Distance Education Across Twelve Time Zones On the evening of September 9, 1999, the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) launched the first of nine new, highly collaborative engineering subjects for the fall semester. By the end of the first year, 17 new subjects would be offered to the first class of SMA students... |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Steven J. Frank |
Review: MITx's Online Circuit Design and Analysis Course This latest experiment in remote learning is not for a casual audience |
Mother Jones
February 2001
Eyal Press & Jennifer Washburn |
Digital Diplomas Welcome to the brave new world of higher education, where profesors are 'content experts,' classes are 'courseware,' and students are customers. But just what is a dot-com degree worth? |
Salon.com
April 12, 2001
Cathy Young |
Sex and science Are women discriminated against in the lab? Or are gender imbalances due to intellectual differences? |
PC Magazine
December 20, 2006
Rhey et al. |
Top 10 Wired Colleges The schools that offer students the best high-tech environment to prepare for the real world. |
Information Today
March 5, 2012 |
MIT OpenCourseWare and Flat World Knowledge Team Up This is among the first collaborations between an OpenCourseWare publisher and an open textbook publisher. |
D-Lib
January 2003
Smith et al. |
DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository DSpace functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Arndt |
MIT's 150th Birthday The students, alumni, and professors at MIT are a brainy -- and busy -- bunch. To mark the university's 150th year, we tracked a handful of smarty-pants with ties to the school. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
Susan Karlin |
Making Engineers Smart -- and Savvy A new MIT leadership program grafts social skills onto problem solvers |
Wired
May 2004
Spencer Reiss |
Frank Gehry's Geek Palace It's eye-popping! It's brand-building! It's a boundary-busting intellectual free trade zone! Inside the research center that could remake MIT, if they can just get those damn researchers in line. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Prachi Patel-Predd |
From Nerd to Wonk Tired of designing devices that policy-makers will misuse? Go back to school and train to become a policy maven yourself. Of course, there are other options for engineers who want to view the world through a wider-angle lens than the one they got in college. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Erico Guizzo |
The EE Gender Gap Is Widening Electrical engineering faces an age-old question: What do women want? |
Inc.
March 2009
Benjamin P. Gleitzman |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Saying All the Right Things MIT seniors Scot Frank and Chris Varenhorst developed Lingt Language as a tool for teaching foreign languages. |
AskMen.com
Bridget Quigg |
Is A College Education Worth The Money? PayScale.com figured out how valuable a four-year college degree is for various schools based on increased earnings over a 30-year period of work after obtaining a degree. Here are tips for picking a college with good ROI. |
Information Today
February 19, 2015
Woody Evans |
Google for Education Is Giving Away the Classroom Google for Education can no longer brush off its parallels to other big, for-profit LMSs as "just some apps to help students." We're well beyond Google Docs and Hangouts now. |
Chemistry World
March 24, 2015
Bill Griffith |
My life in the golden age of chemistry: more fun than fun Frank Albert Cotton, known to most as Al, was one of the most outstanding inorganic chemists of recent times. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 5, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
MIT and FIRST Ally To Encourage STEM Education Careers The cornerstone of the alliance is a pilot program to teach robotics to K-12 students after school. |
Chemistry World
May 2, 2014
Andy Extance |
MIT makes mega-investment in new nano lab A new $350 million building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will break down barriers traditionally separating subjects like chemistry, engineering, and bioscience in the name of nanoscale research. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Logan Ward |
MIT's Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a Day From impoverished Peruvian villages to MIT's D-Lab, professor Amy Smith and her spirited team of engineers are on a mission: Fight global poverty and improve living standards for developing countries one low-cost, accessible invention at a time. |
