Education, teaching, academics

Gabriela Schlau-Cohen will receive an unrestricted research grant of $75,000.

Gabriela Schlau-Cohen wins Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Award recognizes talents and leadership qualities of young faculty in the chemical sciences.

May 1, 2020

MIT Building 68, home of the Department of Biology

Life and learning find a way during a pandemic

Despite Covid-19 physical distancing, the Department of Biology has come together while being apart.

April 30, 2020

Screenshot from MIT Sloan Executive Education's recent Platform Strategy live online program offering

MIT Sloan Executive Education pivots to live online courses

Jumping the digital learning curve is forging a whole new path for participant engagement and program delivery.

April 29, 2020

A report from the MIT Open Learning Workforce Education Project argues that higher education can and should play a vital role in providing workers with 21st-century skills suited to new technologies, as well as opportunities to move into better-paying jobs.

Workforce Education Project details how Covid-19 upends assumptions

Report finds that higher education institutions can play a significant role in reforming workforce education.

April 28, 2020

Studying science has made her a better historian, Charlotte Minsky says. And studying history has made her a better scientist.

Meet the MIT bilinguals: Dual history and planetary science major Charlotte Minsky

Studying history has made her a better planetary scientist, Minsky says. And studying science has made her a better historian.

April 28, 2020

Professor Alex Shalek has been named the recipient of the 2019-20 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award.

Alex Shalek wins Edgerton Faculty Award

Professor of chemistry and IMES core member is recognized for his leadership and pioneering spirit.

April 23, 2020

Professor Jacob White demonstrates from the basement of his home during a J-WEL Connections session. His presentation, titled "Hands on for Half the Price" outlined some of the hands-on activities he’s using for remote instruction with his students during the Covid-19 crisis.

J-WEL Week becomes new online experience J-WEL Connections

After a quick change of plans owing to Covid-19, global education lab discovers the benefits of shifting to a virtual format.

April 21, 2020

A group of students from Harvard and MIT have created a mentoring platform called CovEducation that matches K-12 students from low income communities with college students to provide academic support.

Helping K-12 students overcome school closures

CovEducation matches college students with younger learners to facilitate online learning.

April 17, 2020

Of the growing demand for MIT's online education resources, MIT Professor Krishna Rajagopal says, “We are inspired to see students worldwide keep on learning, and indeed to see people everywhere learning something new and advancing their education, during this time of crisis.”

Students and teachers rely on MIT teaching and learning resources now more than ever

Drawing on two decades of experience, MIT offers classes and tools for educators, parents, and students in a suddenly virtual world.

April 16, 2020

A mural of hopes and questions about artificial intelligence from a middle school workshop

Learning about artificial intelligence: A hub of MIT resources for K-12 students

New website offers a combination of learning units, hands-on activities, and mentor guides to foster AI literacy.

April 7, 2020

Left to right: Department of Mathematics Professor Alan Edelman, his co-instructor and family Corgi Philip, and visiting professor and longtime Julia lab collaborator David Sanders have altered their computational thinking course to encourage input on COVID-19 responses.

Computational thinking class enables students to engage in Covid-19 response

Nearly 300 students join an open course that applies data science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modeling using the Julia language to study Covid-19.

April 7, 2020

In the new all-remote education landscape, strong connections between teachers and learners are more critical than ever.

3 Questions: J-WEL leaders on retooling education during a global crisis

MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab executive director Vijay Kumar and faculty advisor Eric Klopfer discuss remote learning responses to Covid-19.

April 6, 2020

From his home, Abel Sanchez leads the live virtual delivery of Digital Transformation offered by MIT Professional Education. The program included 30 professionals, each also participating from home.

MIT Professional Education conducts first all-virtual class in the wake of Covid-19

Abel Sanchez discovers three major takeaways for translating on-the-ground courses to online virtual formats.

March 31, 2020

As MIT classes resume today, online, faculty and the hundreds of staff who helped implement remote learning at MIT can pause briefly and catch their collective breath. “None of us have ever done this before, so we will navigate together,” says Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal.

Rolling out remote learning

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, MIT enters a new mode for teaching and learning.

March 29, 2020

Students from the first academic course to use MIT.nano's facilities pose in the facility's soft lithograpy space with technical instructor Scott Poesse (left).

Meet the first undergraduate users of MIT.nano

Micro/nano processing course fabricates devices in MIT.nano’s facilities.

March 25, 2020

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