Kim Scott, currently a research scientist in the Early Childhood Cognition Lab at MIT, developed and currently runs the online branch of the lab, Lookit.
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MITili’s Associate Director, Jeff Dieffenbach, joins Wharton’s Business Radio to discuss changes to education and how science and information are impacting learning.
With the help of 150 Masie Learning 2017 conference participants, an MIT research team set out to address the hot topic of micro-learning. The participants interacted with one of three variations of an elearning video on one of the conference themes, cybersecurity.
Joshua Angrist is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a Research Associate in the NBER's programs on Children, Education, and Labor Studies, and founder of MIT's School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII). A dual U.S. and Israeli citizen, he taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before coming to MIT. Angrist received his B.A.
Members of the MITili team in conjunction with the MIT Gabrieli Lab conducted an experiment at the Elliott Masie Learning 2017 Conference in Orlando, FL this week. They spent two days with participants using a small EEG headband to record brain waves which can detect the amount of focus a learner has.
Kana Okano is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gabrieli Lab at MIT. She, along with Dr. John Gabrieli, MITili Director, examine a range of issues including ADHD, dyslexia, the correlation between test scores and cognitive abilities, the basis of spontaneous thought, and the impact of socio-economic status on brain development.
Justin Reich is the Executive Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department, and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.
How does the science of learning inform the day-to-day instructional choices of teachers? edX explores the science behind learning and how it helps improve classroom outcomes.
MITili is conducting research in collaboration with Accenture and Skillsoft to explore how employees in the workplace learn, with a focus on short instructional videos.
Pritchard contends that pedagogy is held in low esteem by university professors, especially in sciences.