Recipients of MITili’s learning effectiveness research grants convened at a recent luncheon with MITili Director John Gabrieli, Deputy Director Parag Pathak, and members of MIT Open Learning to share the latest on their work.
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Having just gone through my first round of midterms, I appreciated how efficient the grading turnaround was at MIT. Instead of waiting weeks for feedback on assessments, as is often the case elsewhere, my graded assessment was returned to me within a day.
Halie is a graduate student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at MIT. She is interested in how early life experiences and environments impact brain development, particularly in the context of reading and language, and in turn what this means for children’s educational outcomes.
A conversation with Mary Ziegler, online accessibility program manager for MITx
As part of the McGovern Institute Ask the Brain series, Halie Olson, a graduate student in the labs of John Gabrieli and Rebecca Saxe, pens her answer to the question,”Can I rewire my brain?”
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Eric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade at MIT.
Nataliya Kos’myna is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab, helping MITili evaluate the real-time biofeedback of learners to monitor and improve their ability to sustain attention.
Members of MIT’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) set out to determine not only if a flipped classroom enhances learning, but also whether it had any effect on achievement gap.
This summer, J-WEL continues a series of exciting collaborations with