ChicagoX Gives “Taste of Python” to Chicago Youth
This past summer, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched the “Summer of Learning” initiative, a coordinated effort to provide youth in Chicago with access to high-quality educational programs to extend...
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OEIT To Develop Hands-On Tech for MA Community Colleges
The Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT/ODL) is collaborating with Massachusetts community colleges to develop technology-enabled components to expand training opportunities in...
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AMPS Launches “Teaching Excellence at MIT”
AMPS MIT Video Productions recently launched Teaching Excellence at MIT, a website they created for sharing current examples of their work and as a sampling of video content from their archives. The...
View Article24.00x: New Approach to Age-Old Questions
Caspar Hare’s 24.00x: Intro to Philosophy, is one in a small minority of humanities MOOCs emerging worldwide. Though little more than a week has passed since its course launch, 24.00x is tasking tens...
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Chad Lieberman: Bringing 16.101x to the edX Platform
This month ODL interviewed someone working in the nitty gritty of MITx course authoring. Chad Lieberman, an engineering post-doc, discusses his work on 16.101x: Introduction to Aerodynamics, the first...
View ArticlexTalks: Digital Discourses
ODL is excited to launch “xTalks: Digital Discourses,” a seminar series to facilitate awareness, deep understanding and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. The broad goal for...
View ArticleWhat Is “MISTIx”?
Over the summer, ODL launched a project to get MIT students involved with the digital revolution at MIT. In coordination with MIT International Science Technology Initiatives (MISTI), ODL created...
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OCW In The Himalayas
Ladakh. (http://www.lehladakhindia.com/pictures/page/gallery/1_568.jpg) Members of the OCW outreach team recently had the pleasure of meeting with Sally Daultrey, the Director of Research of the...
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Saif Rayyan: Beyond The MOOC
Dr. Saif Rayyan is an MIT lecturer and long-time online course creator, responsible for the development of 8.011: Mechanics Online, 8.01x, 8.02x, and CC8.01 for Concourse. Hear how Rayyan has gone...
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Active Learning With Echo360
ODL is a proponent for active learning. That’s why our AMPS team uses Echo360. Echo360 is a lecture capture appliance and server for what we call “rich media capture.” Instead of just recording video,...
View ArticleBio 111: Where MOOCs Meet The Classroom
A, B, C, or D? Instead of listening to a lecture, students spend their class time thinking through problem sets and answering questions with a handheld clicker. “Flipped” classroom pioneer, UMass...
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The ODL Family Just Keeps Growing!
Our ODL “family” just keeps growing! Over the past few months alone, we have hired more than 15 people! In case you didn’t read about our last batch of new hires, all of their fun facts can be found...
View ArticlexTalks: Alive and THRIVING
ODL’s xTalks: Digital Discourses was launched this semester, and with three successful xTalks under the belt and more to come in the new year. The very first xTalk–Ike Chuang’s presentation on...
View ArticleMITx: Case Studies in Video
Professor Al Oppenheim discusses his experience flipping the 6.341 classroom. Students use clickers to anonymously answer questions during class, giving both the student and the professor feedback....
View ArticleBuilding Mobile Experiences Gets Interactive
21W.789x Building Mobile Experiences is the first project-based course offered on MITx. The course, taught by Frank Bentley of Yahoo Labs and Ed Barrett, a Senior Lecturer at MIT, takes students...
View ArticleWhat is AMPS DE?
The AMPS Distance Education & Streaming Operations group (AMPS DE) is the half of AMPS that supports Institute collaborative learning initiatives with partner universities and programs, assisting...
View ArticleAMPS and the WHOI
The AMPS DE group provides support for the Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science Engineering, which is a collaborative program between MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI)...
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Xtalk: Modes of Reasoning with Dr. Sanjoy Mahajan
Sanjoy Mahajan: Teaching Modes of Reasoning: Redesigning “The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering” Course Around Transferable Ways of Thinking Does a block of wood make a higher or lower...
View ArticleRevisiting 24.00x – Enthusiastic Discussions
Caspar Hare recently completed teaching 24.00x, Introduction to Philosophy: God, Knowledge and Consciousness. The course, which will run again next fall, was the first online humanities course run...
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Welcome New Members of ODL!
Come meet the new members of the Office of Digital Learning! Dana Doyle Hello! My name is Dana Doyle and my official title at MITx is “Manager, Digital Learning Development”. My job description, in a...
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