MIT Vice President for Open Learning Sanjay Sarma shares his view on why we are at a critical juncture in education.
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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: 14 March 2018
MIT Professor Richard Larson tells the story of how watching his son create a biology project using a computer, rare in those days, led to the beginnings of the LINC Conference.
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.
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.
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 complexity and learning.
Date: 2 November 2017
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) joined forces to host a 2-day conference on November 1 & 2, 2017, which brought together industry, academia, economists and visionaries for an open dialogue about AI’s impact.
Date: 27 October 2017
The MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute is a rigorous, world-class STEM program for talented rising high school seniors. The 2017 program featured three project-based, workshop-style courses. In the RACECAR course, students programmed small robotic cars to autonomously navigate a racetrack.
Date: 25 October 2017
MIT President L. Rafael Reif discusses the role of MIT Alumnus Mohammed Jameel '78 in making MIT's educational expertise available worldwide.
Date: 25 October 2017
MIT President L. Rafael Reif introduces J-WEL.