“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!”
IS&T, TLL, and Open Learning have collaborated to build a teaching resource site that provides soup-to-nuts instructions on preparing classes for remote delivery.
Role models both in and out of the classroom, the new fellows have tirelessly sought to improve themselves, their students, and the Institute writ large.
Selected from over 1,000 applicants from 42 countries, the 28 members of this year’s Refugee Action (ReACT) class are the second cohort to complete the yearlong program.
A crash course in deep learning organized and taught by grad students Alexander Amini and Ava Soleimany reaches more than 350 MIT students each year; more than a million other people have watched their lectures online over the past three years.