This document was created as a resource for those working on developing, implementing, and engaging in remote teaching and learning. One goal of this work is to provide a starting point for transitioning away from emergency online instruction in response to COVID-19 toward increasingly effective
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Date: 16 November 2018
In this excerpt from a webinar, Jeff Dieffenbach, Associate Director of the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili), and Aaron Kessler, Senior Learning Scientist for MIT Open Learning, share the latest research on the science of learning with the J-WEL community. They introduce the idea of
Date: 5 June 2018
At EmTech 2018, Sanjay Sarma of MIT speaks on the science of learning, and his views on how higher education will need to evolve to prepare students for the era of AI. The Emtech conference, produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review magazine, is an annual
Date: 4 April 2018
This course explores the problem of intelligence—its nature, how it is produced by the brain and how it could be replicated in machines—using an approach that integrates cognitive science, which studies the mind; neuroscience, which studies the brain; and computer science and artificial
Date: 9 October 2017
Prof. Woodie Flowers shares implications of emerging understandings of how we learn, and the application of those findings in engineering design classes.
Date: 1 April 2016
This report looks at the challenge of how both online and blended learning can be optimized by incorporating emerging lessons from learning science, from discipline-based education reforms, and from cognitive science.
It is the final report of MIT’s Online Education Policy Initiative and