Education, teaching, academics

Alex Amouyel, executive director of Solve

Solve announces next global challenges

March 2, 2018

Undergraduate financial aid boosted for 2018-19

Financial aid increase of 9.6 percent to offset 3.9 percent rise in tuition and fees.

February 21, 2018

Escher Reality, co-founded by Ross Finman in the MIT Sandbox, was recently acquired by augmented-reality (AR) giant Niantic — and plans to give back to the program that helped it launch. The startup is developing a platform that allows cross-platform, fully multiplayer AR games that save digital objects in the real world.

MIT Sandbox’s first acquired startup gives back

Augmented-reality startup Escher Reality, which recently sold to Niantic, gives back to the program that helped it launch.

February 21, 2018

With one foot in a dual bachelor’s and master’s program in urban studies and the other in an array of educational and community outreach programs, Yazmin Guzman applies the same careful coordination she perfected as a Mexican folkloric dancer to her life at MIT.

Sealing the cracks in public education

MIT senior Yazmin Guzman wants to change the educational landscape to provide opportunities to all K-12 students.

February 14, 2018

Left to right: Senior Lecturer Dawn Wendell and seniors Gabriel Ginorio and Drew Bent launched the x-terms spring pilot.

A hybrid term takes shape

Devised and led by two MIT seniors, the x-terms pilot meshes academics with internships in the greater Boston area.

February 13, 2018

Lawrence S. Bacow ’72 named president of Harvard University

“I learned how to be a professor and a university leader at MIT,” says former chancellor and DUSP faculty member.

February 12, 2018

Alumni call on MIT to champion artificial intelligence education

Leadership urged to consider societal and ethical questions alongside the technical.

February 9, 2018

People walking into and out of MIT's main entrance

Work continues toward a more diverse, inclusive MIT

Many of the changes recommended by black students in 2015 have been implemented; departmental discussions are ongoing.

February 7, 2018

The 2018 Festival of Learning was a day of learning with national thought leaders, MIT innovators, an interactive learning expo, food, fun, and more. Hundreds of attendees experienced the catalyzing power behind initiatives designed to transform education.

Lessons in learning

MIT's second annual Festival of Learning engages and inspires.

February 7, 2018

Professor Alex Slocum (right) works with students Alban Cobi and Steven Link, who are developing an adjustable phantom for radiotherapy validation.

Just what the doctor ordered

Class brings together MIT students and clinicians from local hospitals to design medical devices that address real-world health needs.

February 5, 2018

J-PAL North America's new competition is designed to meet a growing demand for rigorous inquiry into which technologies truly help students learn.

J-PAL North America launches education technology innovation competition

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab initiative aims to help U.S. education leaders identify technology-based solutions to key challenges in education.

January 26, 2018

Students in the initial class examine electronics components as they begin their year-long course of studies.

New program from MIT offers refugees a career boost

ReACT will award credentials in computer and data science through online and in-person instruction.

January 23, 2018

“The idea of SurgiBox is to take the operating room and shrink it down to just the patient’s size. Keeping an entire room clean and surgery-ready requires a lot of resources that many hospitals and surgeons across the globe don’t have.” — MIT graduate student Sally Miller

Turning any room into an operating room

With a product called SurgiBox, grad student Sally Miller hopes to make safe, clean surgery possible anywhere.

January 8, 2018

Maker education — an open-ended, process-driven, youth-centered learning approach — has grown in popularity in K-12 education over the past decade, but assessing its outcomes has been challenging.

MIT Teaching Systems Lab to address assessments in maker education

Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant, TSL will collaborate with Maker Ed to improve school-based assessment practices in maker-centered education.

December 19, 2017

Physician Chris Zahner at the University of Texas Medical Branch designing sensor systems in the MakerHealth Space.

How to turn clinicians into makers

Providing training and resources, MakerHealth helps nurses and doctors hack medical equipment to improve patient care.