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With creativity and hard work, the Institute is striving to provide the best possible experience for the Class of 2024.
While no organization was ready for such an abrupt pivot, MIT Open Learning had something of a leg up: The group’s mission is to transform teaching and learning through the innovative use of digital technologies.
“We need to educate all students – male and female – equally on the opportunities available in these fields, give them the chance to shine,” MIT’s Daniela Rus, director of CSAIL.
For a final project, teams created a joint video on their chosen theme, with topics including university life, linguistics, music, movies, cooking, and folktales.
The old view of education, MIT's Sanjay Sarma says, saw students’ minds as pieces of paper, and the teacher’s job was essentially to write information on that paper. That’s all wrong, he says. “The student is building a model of the world, like a plant growing. What you need to do is tend to that plant.”
“All of us wish that the entire cohort of students could be on campus this fall, but pandemic-related public health and safety concerns make that impossible,” says MIT's Suzy Nelson.
“Qubit by Qubit” introduces high school students to quantum computing through a week-long summer camp and a year-long course.
With support from the MIT Governance Lab, the South African civic technology organization Grassroot has developed a first-of-its-kind training course entirely on WhatsApp.
“How do you welcome a student to a campus that they actually can’t see and come to?” explains Naomi Carton, associate dean of graduate residential education.