Labor economists estimate that more than two million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled in the next decade (Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, 2018). This number will be driven not only by the retirement of a rapidly aging workforce, but also by the adoption of new technologies as the
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In 2018, MIT launched the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future. In November 2020, it released its final report, "The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines." The report provides insight into how new technologies are changing the nature of work and what
This paper focuses on the question: What are the lessons from learning science and new technologies that could make online education, including workforce training, more effective?
Our current workforce education system faces many gaps, from underinvestment to a deep disconnect between the
This Innovation to Practice, Work-In-Progress Paper discusses efforts toward building a community for educational transformation in Higher Education led by the department of Open Learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT has a long history of implementing hands-on, science
Since May 2016, the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have charted a novel path for educational collaborations among higher education institutions and philanthropies. We joined efforts to increase educational access to
Slides from the webinar, "What the History of Education Technology Teaches us about Pandemic Teaching."
Slides from our introductory session for our September 15, 2020, event, "From Trainer to Transformer: L&D as a Key Lever For Organizational Success."
Join us for a discussion with J-WEL Associate Director and Head of Operations Steve Carson and Eliza Berg, Senior Officer for MIT Solve’s Learning pillar to discuss J-WEL benefits, including our opportunities through affiliated organizations such as MIT Solve. This discussion is appropriate for
Dr. Vijay Kumar, J-WEL Executive Director, and Dr. George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist at J-WEL Workforce Learning, introduce our event, From Trainer to Transformer: L&
In this recording from our July 2020 membership information session, you will hear from Julia Reynolds-Cuéllar, Associate Director for J-WEL Higher Education; and Steve Carson, J-WEL Head of Operations and Associate Director of Membership Management.
This session will help you:
In this talk, Craig Zilles, Associate Professor and Education Innovation Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, discusses an effective, secure, and efficient alternative to traditional pencil-and-paper exams that scales to even the largest courses. The College of Engineering
The "Behavioral Science in the Field" course, a collaboration between the MIT Governance Lab and the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, uses an interdisciplinary approach to train
Slides from our June 30, 2020 webinar, "Safe, Familiar, Student-Centric — An Emergency Guide to Remote Teaching for Novices."
Slides from our June 18, 2020, webinar, "Emergency Transformation of a Public University to Remote Teaching and Learning."
In May 2020, the authors of this report facilitated four online design charrettes with a variety of school stakeholders—students, teachers, principals, district leaders, parents, consultants, state officials, and others—to develop a design process for fall 2020 school planning. They describe
In this webinar, David Joyner, Executive Director of Online Education at Georgia Tech, takes novice remote instructors on a crash course to get ready to teach online for the first time.
The presentation recommends that instructors who need to make a rapid transition should follow three
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