Radhika Bhula, Policy Manager at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), describes a report compiling 58 different evaluations from 28 low and middle-income countries on primary and secondary school attendance.
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Date: 5 June 2018
MIT Professor of Economics Daron Acemoglu takes a look at the link between productivity and employment and evaluates the best path forward through this time of radical disruption in the workplace.
Date: 29 May 2018
MIT Bootcamps Associate Director Vimala Palaniswamy explains how corporate employees grow after attending MIT Bootcamps.
From our May 29, 2018, Workplace Learning webinar, "MIT Bootcamps: Jumpstarting Corporate Innovation Through Custom Learning Programs."
Date: 23 May 2018
Dr. Mette Miriam Böll describes our pK-12 Workshop Offering: "Introduction to Compassionate Systems Framework in Schools."
This clip is from our May 23, 2018 pK-12 webinar, titled "Compassionate Systems."
Date: 25 April 2018
At the Open Education Consortium Global Conference 2018, Dr. Andreia Inamorato dos Santos shares recent work from the European Commission Science and Knowledge Service Joint Research Centre on open educational practices in the European Union.
Date: 25 April 2018
Open education and open research are often discussed in separate forums as distinct concepts and activities. However, since faculty members are often both educators and researchers, these areas of open scholarship often overlap and have many principles in common.
Date: 5 April 2018
MIT Vice President for Open Learning Sanjay Sarma shares his view on why we are at a critical juncture in education.
Date: 5 April 2018
Sheryl Barnes, Director of Digital Learning in Residential Education at MIT Open Learning, provides a window into some of the ways education is being transformed at MIT.
Date: 5 April 2018
J-WEL Associate Director for Membership Management Stephen Carson provides an overview of how J-WEL works with its membership to address educational opportunities and challenges.
Date: 5 April 2018
Professor Hazel Sive, Director of the Higher Education Collaborative @ J-WEL, provides an overview of the group's approach to working with its members.
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 intellige
Date: 30 March 2018
This study considers the global state of the art in engineering undergraduate education.
Date: 20 March 2018
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.
Date: 8 March 2018
This OECD study focuses on the risk of automation and its interaction with training and the use of skills at work. This paper estimates the risk of automation for individual jobs based on the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC).
Date: 1 March 2018
This Edu Trends offers a broad overview of the role Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality play in the international educational arena.
Date: 31 January 2018
What are chocolate-covered broccoli games, and why might better alternatives exist for teaching kids using educational games? MIT Prof. Eric Klopfer, Faculty Co-Director of pK-12 @ J-WEL, explains.
Date: 1 January 2018
BLOSSOMS video lessons are enriching students' learning experiences in high school classrooms from Brooklyn to Beirut to Bangalore.
Date: 29 December 2017
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution.
Date: 7 December 2017
From our 12/7/17 webinar with Peter Senge, titled "Systems Thinking and Learning Organizations: Implications for J-WEL." This video is an excerpt of Peter's comments on why J-WEL is a natural extension of MIT's approach to teaching and learning.
Date: 7 December 2017
From our 12/7/17 webinar with Peter Senge, titled "Systems Thinking and Learning Organizations: Implications for J-WEL." This video is an excerpt of Peter's comments on J-WEL's mission.