"Hands on for Half the Price" outlines some of the hands-on activities MIT professors are using for remote instruction with students during the Covid-19 crisis.
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"The importance of the human element in teaching and learning was never in doubt," says Eric Klopfer, MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab faculty advisor for pK-12.
“The challenge is that online formats can be dry and dull. As a participant, you’re checking your emails while [the course] is going on, and then coming back to attention when things pick up a bit. I knew we had to develop a better way. So that’s what we did!”
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MIT Full STEAM Ahead is a collection of resources that MIT is putting together for teaching and learning online.