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What We Do
- Improved the professional and academic prospects of high school students in underserved communities in India
- Announced Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab
- Served more than 2 million learners around the world through courses on OCW, MITx, MicroMasters, and MIT xPro
- Piloted full-credit online residential course
- Served 8,818 MIT students through 76 courses using the Residential MITx platform
- Scaled-up the development of video resources through the creation of a self-service video kiosk, called the "lightboard", for faculty and staff
- First cohort received their MicroMasters certificates in Supply Chain Management
- Hosted 6 MIT Bootcamps at MIT and around the world: Taiwan, Mexico, Turkey, and Australia
- MIT xPRO won the 2017 Excellence in Engineering Education Collaboration Award, granted by the American Society for Engineering Education for "Architecture and Systems Engineering," a 4-course series with Boeing and NASA
- The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative visited local schools, working with area experts to understand the impact of personalized learning on students
- The Teaching Systems Lab developed a series of simulations and games to help teachers address the negative effects of unconscious biases in the classroom
- Launched ClimateX, an MIT online learning community where people share knowledge and ideas about climate change
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In case you missed it
June 2017
- MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) completes first research project on mind-wandering, memory and reinforcement and pretesting, using fMRI and portable EEG technology.
- Two of MIT documentaries win New England Emmy Awards.
- First cohort receives their MicroMasters certificates in Supply Chain Management.
- xTalks: Making Meaningful Media: The Impact of MIT+K12 Videos.
- Honored three MIT professors with the Teaching With Digital Technology Award 2017.
- 97th MITx course launched.
- Held MIT Internet of Things Bootcamp in Cambridge, MA.
- OCW publishes 25 OCW Educator This Course at MIT pages, where MIT faculty share their pedagogical approach to teaching - bringing our OCW Educator number to 182 courses.
- MIT pK-12 tests out curriculum in MA local schools in prep for a STEAM summer camp for students and teachers.
- MIT pilots first full-credit online residential course.
New England Emmy Award winning documentary, A Bold Move.
May 2017
- Launched Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL)
- MIT OpenCourseWare publishes a total of 2,400 courses.
- Traveled to Taiwan for the MIT Beyond Food Mini-Bootcamp.
- Held the MIT Internet of Things Bootcamp in Cambridge, MA.
- Teaching Systems Lab (TSL) awards grants to MIT community to bring new ideas for STEM curriculum and teacher education to life.
- Awarded first MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning in MOOCs.
- MITili's Transformational Research Talk Series: David Pritchard - Increasing the accountability to which we hold our educators.
- MIT Video Production produced and launched announcement of "The Jameel World Education Lab."
- San Jose City College, in collaboration with MIT, launched an 18-week coding course using MITx 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science.
- Sanjay Sarma announces next Solve at MIT Challenge: "Youth, Skills, and the Workforce of the Future."
- Our Finance Team was given an MIT Infinite Mile Award for their extraordinary contribution in developing an innovative and detailed financial model for a complex and evolving office.
April 2017
- xTalks: Tim van der Zee: Learning from Videos in Open Online Education.
- Hosted L@S: Fourth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, convening 180 leading educators.
- Launched a Microsoft-funded MOOC for K-12 school leaders : Design Thinking for Leading and Learning.
Our Finance Team received an MIT Infinite Mile Award for their extraordinary contributions.
March 2017
- Traveled "Down Under" for the MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Australia.
- Reran Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models for Managing Complex Systems program.
- TSL tests the use of our mobile simulation platform, TeacherMoments, with Computer Science teachers addressing issues of unconscious bias.
- MIT faculty David Pritchard delivers xTalk on "Course Reform MIT Style: Student Evaluations vs. Scientific Evidence."
"If we can help teachers identify places where (unconscious) bias may unintentionally be affecting their students, we can help them to create more just and equitable classrooms.”
- Justin Reich, executive director of the Teaching Systems Lab
February 2017
- Launched second MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy.
- Hosted Inaugural Festival of Learning, a two-day celebration featuring national thought-leaders, MIT innovators, student hackers, food, and fun.
- xTalks: Casey McCabe: Student Out-of-Class Behavior in a Flipped Intro Biology Course: Interaction Patterns & Self-Regulated Learning Strategies.
- MITili hosts Transformational Research Talk Series featuring Professor Laura Schultz and her idea of building a learning lab, an experimental space for early childhood educators to design, test, and share best practices.
- MIT xPro launches the Qualitative Methods in Systems Engineering course.
January 2017
- Held MIT Turkcell Innovation & Leadership Bootcamp in Turkey.
- MIT pK-12 launches learning grants for STEM curriculum development and project materials.
- xTalks: U.S. Under Secretary of Education Launches Higher Education Technology Policy Brief.
- OCW publishes nine videos under the title "IIT Joint Entrance Exam Preparation," part of a larger series conceived by an MIT graduate student interested in helping less privileged students in India do well on the entrance exam for the Indian Institutes of Technology. The videos use light board technology (the first appearance of light board on OCW) to teach concepts taught on the exam.
- Competency exam certificate is available for MITx Introduction to Biology course.
- Launched a Microsoft-funded MOOC for K-12 school leaders : Launching Innovation in Schools.
OCW publishes nine videos under the title "IIT Joint Entrance Exam Preparation"
December 2016
- MITx celebrates its 5th anniversary.
- xTalks: Purcell & Berg - The Future of Undergraduate Education: Pathways and Possibilities.
- OCW publishes "Girls Who Build Cameras," showcasing a one-day, hands-on workshop for high school girls to learn camera physics and technology.
- Our Engineering and Technical Operations team designs and delivers the MITx MicroMasters portal.
November 2016
- Held Bootcamp Workshop and User Innovation & Entrepreneurship CCX in Mexico.
- xTalks: Deb Roy - Playful Words: Literacy Learning Networks.
- TSL Executive Director Justin Reich presents on "Playful Rehearsal - Designing Practice Spaces for Teachers."
- xTalks: Jeff Gore, Lori Breslow & Steven Hall on Active Learning.
- xTalks: Brandon Busteed: Why Old School is New School in Higher Education.
October 2016
- OCW's YouTube subscribers surpass the 1 million mark with more than 91.7 million video views.
- MIT Video Production produces a high energy video announcement for launch of "The Engine."
- MIT collaborates with i2 Learning to host STEM Week in Boston Public Schools.
- MIT xPro launched the Model in Engineering course.
- Expanded Arab access to MITx MicroMasters in supply chain management through the Al Ghurair Open Learning Scholars Program.
"Boston STEM Week provides an opportunity for delivering MIT’s curriculum at scale that we hope will inspire a next generation of future engineers, scientists, and innovators.”
- Sanjay Sarma, VPOL, on Boston STEM Week
September 2016
- Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods of Managing Complex Systems launches.
- Collaborated with community colleges to innovate educational technology.
- Launched ClimateX, an online learning community where people from the MIT community share knowledge and ideas about climate change with the world.
August 2016
- Held MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Cambridge, MA.
- Introduced instructor grading in popular MITx philosophy MOOC.
July 2016
- OCW served more than 1.2 billion page views of free MIT course materials since it launched 16 years ago.
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