“The documentary beautifully captures the humanity of the incarcerated students, and the wonderful human connections between MIT students and the incarcerated people — mostly around their age —who are working hard to turn their lives around."
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“It’s been humbling to witness the role our courses have played in learners’ lives these past few months,” says Dana Doyle, director of the MITx Program.
More than 250 people from 25 countries participated in the MIT Arab SciTech Virtual IDEAthon, hosted by the MIT Arab Student Organization.
“Everyone at MIT comes at it like, ‘I’m going to solve this,’” said Ian A. Waitz, vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate education, who is helping to lead the planning. “And we honestly hoped to get some really good ideas out of it—and we got a couple.”
Congratulations to MIT Open Learning affiliate Cynthia Breazeal who helped develop aieducation.mit.edu, an online learning site for grades K-12, which shares a variety of online activities for students to learn about artificial intelligence.
MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet.
Making is central to MIT’s identity. It is the embodiment of MIT’s motto, "mens et manus" — "mind and hand." For many students, making is more than designing, engineering, arts, and crafts; it is an act of community.
“It wasn’t clear yet what was coming, but it was clear we had to pay attention,” MIT's Rajagopal says. “And it got more clear by the day.”
A set of images documents one participant through multiple interactions with MIT's "Your Baby the Physicist" study. The study is one of many now made more easily accessible to participants through the new Children Helping Science collaborative.
The online summer program will teach students about biotechnology and the unique ways neuroscientists and inventors use STEM knowledge to solve problems.