Many students, even at MIT, cannot apply calculus in downstream science and engineering courses. For example, many students can evaluate integrals but cannot translate a physical situation into an integral.
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Curriculum Design Workshop
Community Building: Dinner @ Amelia's
Resource Visibility: Curriculum Design Workshop
Speaking at the Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit at Western University, Shigeru Miyagawa, senior associate dean for open learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that knowledge of AI and computational systems should be integral to higher education.
The Learning Compass 2030 defines the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that learners need to fulfill their potential and contribute to the well-being of their communities and the planet.
In education, where interest in social and emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness, and systems thinking is growing, we find both an opportunity and a need to develop models of thinking and teaching that prepare students to better understand and respond to the systems to which these issues belong.
The closing presentation from the HybridEd Workshop 2018, held June 21 on the MIT campus.
The sixth panel from the 2018 HybridEd Workshop, featuring Daniel Seaton, Product Owner for DART at Harvard University; Brad Wheeler, Learning Experience Designer for the Boston University Center for Teaching & Learning; Liling Huang, Lecturer in Chinese at Boston University; and Robert Rubin
This study considers the global state of the art in engineering undergraduate education.
Angie Belcher, pK-12 @ J-WEL Faculty Co-Director and MIT professor, is convinced that even the most complicated concepts can be translated for the youngest learners. In this clip, she discusses teaching children how to amplify DNA.