Now, more than ever, the public is seeing how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields are rising to the challenge of Covid-19.
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“I had never imagined ... a crisis where having expertise in online learning and equity would become relevant,” says Justin Reich, assistant professor of comparative media studies.
What happens when, with hardly any warning, you have to halt your class in the middle of the semester and you are told to switch from the familiar face-to-face teaching to the alien screen-to-screen format?
“An amazing part of doing this project is that, through my quest to educate younger students, I ended up learning so much about AI careers myself.” – High School Senior CC Song.
“Workforce education programs in the U.S. are trying to make up for an education system that does not serve the needs of all. They are an educational safety net system for those being left behind, but it’s not that much of a fallback.” – MIT’s Sanjay Sarma
“We know that the world will be different post-Covid — generally, and in higher education in particular. The pandemic has required us to reassess how we teach, how we learn, how we work, what we research, and how we fund it all.” – MIT’s Sanjay Sarma
As people age, they often lose their motivation to learn new things or engage in everyday activities. MIT’s neuroscientists have now identified a brain circuit that is critical for maintaining this kind of motivation.
Through a five year collaboration, MIT and Accenture will establish multiple learning programs including a digital learning program bringing learnings to the broader Accenture community and leveraging MIT’s most innovative digital learning methodologies.
One of the world's biggest science experiments shows knowledge depends as much on trust and relationships as it does on textbooks and observations.