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Cynthia Breazeal is an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, where she founded and directs the Personal Robots group at the Media Lab. She is Associate Director for the Bridge: MIT Quest for Intelligence where she leads strategic initiatives in areas such a democratizing AI through K-12 and vocational education.

“People are always worried about running out of work, but we're not,” says Professor David Autor of the “lump of labor fallacy,” the notion that there is a finite amount of work to do.

The Playful Journey Lab, together with the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili), has a project which has been ramping up over the past semester, and which will make connections with many other research groups at MIT and beyond.

As a researcher associated with MIT Open Learning, Aaron Kessler works with research scientists and with MIT Open Learning initiatives that support the research and application of learning science.

Jeffrey Grossman, the Morton and Claire Goulder and Family Professor in Environmental Systems and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, was recently appointed the new head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Now a PhD student in physics at SUNY Stony Brook, Kyle Lee's journey began online with MIT OpenCourseWare Within two weeks of taking his first college-level physics course, Kyle Lee knew that he wanted to be a physicist. 

Check out this video of MIT's Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee talking about their research in poverty and education. They are this year's co-winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Led by Vice President for Open Learning Sanjay Sarma, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) draws together faculty from across the Institute to look at learning at different stages and scales, from neurons and brains, to physical classrooms and learning spaces, to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and global education.<

Anindya uses data-science tools (including machine learning algorithms) and learning sciences to improve teaching, learning, and course design.

Education researchers and leaders hack transformative ideas at J-WEL Week     In a small conference room, three women sit down to tackle a global problem: the growing gap between the skills that employers say they need and the skills that job candidates actually possess.