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“We want to remove as many barriers as we possibly can to support diverse students and teachers,” says Cynthia Breazeal, a professor of media arts and sciences at MIT who founded the Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group.
Last fall, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science launched a new course, 6.800 (Robotic Manipulation) to help engineering students broadly survey the latest advancements in robotics while troubleshooting real industry problems.
For over a decade, Agbasi-Porter has welcomed groups of high school seniors to the lab, coordinating more than 20 programs. And she encourages underrepresented students including women, minorities and low-income families to apply.
MIT's Justin Reich (Teaching Systems Lab) from his latest podcast: "School reform can't be additive. We can't keep saying the job of teachers is to do more and more and more." Listen
MIT Department of Mathematics launches a free math enrichment and research program for Ukrainian high school students and refugees.
I want to share part of the journey of “8.03x: Vibrations and Waves,” which started as a residential MIT course and launched as an MITx course in March 2020.
Meet Nilma Dominque, one of four honorees recently awarded an MLK Jr. Leadership Award. Dominque is an inspirational teacher at MIT where she draws upon culturally authentic teaching materials to connect students with the language they’re learning.
Currently working on her doctoral degree with an MIT master’s already in her toolkit, she is quick to attribute her academic success to MIT’s open educational resources. “I kept coming back to MIT-produced open source learning,” says Andrea Henshall, MIT PhD student.
At MIT, the DLL — which is composed of Digital Learning Scientists and Digital Learning Fellows who are content experts — plays a critical role in co-creating online courses and advancing digital learning initiatives with MIT faculty and departments.