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By: Alison Gold
“The main goal of Ek Kadam Aur is to educate kids and improve the education system, the quality of education in India, and, hopefully, all over the world.”
By: Mary Beth Gallagher
Professor David Wallace and his team developed class 2.s009 (Explorations in Product Design) to give students the safest, best possible hands-on educational experience.
By: Adam Conner-Simons
MIT study shows the power of adaptive training tools, like a basketball hoop that shrinks and raises as you make shots.
By: Melissa Cao
While the Fall 2020 semester continued to pose remote teaching challenges, it also presented an opportunity for instructors to be more prepared than the emergency move to remote teaching in the spring. Read more
By: Sanjay Sarma and Luke Yoquinto
“Cognitive scientists say this spacing effect has a major impact on learning and retaining information — names, dates, skills — for weeks, months and years longer than cramming.” Read more
By: MIT Open Learning
How do you navigate complex conversations, facilitating productive, respectful discussions in a lecture hall, seminar, or remote classroom? Find out.
By: Office of Government and Community Relations
Now, more than ever, the public is seeing how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields are rising to the challenge of Covid-19.
By: Stephanie McPherson
“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.
By: Shigeru Miyagawa and Meghan Perdue
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?
By: Carolyn “CC” Song
“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.