The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) is pleased to announce the Learning Effectiveness Research Request for Proposals.
MITili is a relatively new MIT initiative that funds, connects, and shares research investigating learning effectiveness.
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If you’ve attended an education conference or read about education at all in the past few years, no doubt you’ve come across the term ”personalized learning” in one form or another. You may have even seen a few definitions of the term through articles, brochures, and social media. But what does personalized learning really mean?
Imagine a world in which superstar athletes donate generously to help educate children. That’s exactly what tennis legend Andre Agassi is doing with Square Panda. Through his foundation, the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education, Agassi has worked to make education more effective and equitable. Since 1994, the foundation has raised over $180 million.
Elizabeth is Senior Manager, Online Course Development for MIT Teaching Systems Lab, as well as a Digital Learning Lab Fellow with the MIT Office of Open Learning.
Doctor Rajesh Bhaskaran, lead professor in the Swanson Engineering Simulation Program at Cornell University, spoke to a packed lecture hall about ways engineering education can be enjoyed and personalized on a larger scale with technology and digital tools.
Camille is a School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) Post-Doctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on the economics of education and labor economics.
Leading Boston educators met this morning for an event entitled Beyond Standardized Tests to discuss non-traditional assessment methods. Massachusetts has some of the best education scores in the country, but they are unable to narrow the gap between minority students and students of lower socioeconomic status (SES).
Jen Groff is an educational engineer, researcher, and designer, and a PhD candidate at the The Education Arcade and the MIT Media Lab. Her work focuses on the design and development of learning technologies, the redesign of learning environments and systems, and engineering new learning data models and architectures.
On a cold, wet, New England day, a typical high school would be filled with annoyed students, tired, rolling their eyes, barely able to keep awake. MET High School in Providence is different though. Instead of bored and disinterested students, the rooms are saturated with energetic learners collaborating in groups to solve problems and discuss their projects.
Josh Sheldon is a educational technologist with a primary focus in science, math, and computing. A former high school and middle school science teacher, Sheldon has an extensive background in developing curricular materials in the sciences and various forms of new media for science learning.