“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.
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“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.
“We’ve read some remarkable testimonials from nominating students, speaking to their instructors’ flexibility, creativity, and compassion in this time of crisis,” says MIT’s Sheryl Barnes.
Congratulations to the two newest 2020 grantees in Workforce Learning Innovation Research.
“We can talk about compliance, and we can try to figure out ways to monitor student behavior, but what we’re most interested in is developing a new culture in which students are partnering with us and doing the right thing,” - MIT's John Fernandez.
“How it is that we can repurpose the same circuits and flexibly use them to solve many different problems, and what are the neural codes that are amenable to that kind of reuse?” – MIT’s Ila Fiete.
A large share of community college students drop out before they earn a credential or degree—in what is commonly referred to as a “completion crisis.”
“For much of the world, and at almost every level, education revolves around exams. Leaving aside the complex debate on the need and value of exams, an essential ingredient of learning inevitably takes a back seat: engagement.” VP for Open Learning, Sanjay Sarma.