Be an MIT Student for a Day: The Experience
By Yvonne Ng We were thrilled to host Patrick Abeya as the grand prize winner of last Spring’s Be an MIT Student for a Day sweepstakes. Abeya’s day was jam…
Continue readingBy Yvonne Ng We were thrilled to host Patrick Abeya as the grand prize winner of last Spring’s Be an MIT Student for a Day sweepstakes. Abeya’s day was jam…
Continue readingMaybe it’s an idea that’s been rattling around your head or maybe you’re about to have an epiphany that can dramatically improve the lives of hundreds, thousands, or even millions…
Continue readingMIT launches “Solve” to galvanize action on solving the world’s great challenges Leaders to gather for keystone event at MIT next October Technology Review | December 12, 2014 MIT will…
Continue readingIt’s common knowledge that many MOOC students drop out partway through their course. But some of these learners might consider their “incomplete” to be a complete success. A new study of completion rates among HarvardX MOOCs suggests that student…
Continue readingIt’s an ongoing debate. Can MOOCs help level the educational playing field? Will they be accessible to students of all backgrounds, or are there limits to their effectiveness with some types…
Continue readingWe’ve written about the flipped classroom on Open Matters before, and it’s exciting to see new data on the learning style. US News reports “the bottom third of students made…
Continue readingMIT’s first MOOC, 6.002x Circuits & Electronics, had 154,000 people sign up. But how did these learners use the online course? Researchers analyzed the wealth of data these students generated…
Continue readingYou’ve just pressed play on a video lecture for a new MOOC; how long before your attention starts to wander? As it turns out, only about six minutes! By analyzing…
Continue readingHere’s a great podcast interview from earlier in the year with Justin Reich, the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow at Harvard. A great view into our developing understanding of…
Continue readingMIT’s own Lori Breslow was featured yesterday in the Higher Ed Beta blog on Inside Higher Ed: Working Across Disciplines to Improve Education February 27, 2014 – 6:07am Lori Breslow…
Continue readingMOOCs have gone from a distant idea to a global phenomenon in less than five years. During this period MOOCs have innovated at a dazzling speed in content creation, delivery,…
Continue readingHarvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have released a set of open-source visualization tools for working with a rich trove of data from more than a million people…
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