Idea bank

4/16/13
Don't have a max price
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Currently the price of MIT scales with income. However, this is capped by a max price, which is still under the cost to educate a student. Why is there a cap on the top price? Instead, we should continue the upward slope; perhaps making it more...

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A New Financial Model, Financial models and pricing structures
4/16/13
Make financial aid less of a black box
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Is there some way that MIT could publish more about the way financial aid/pricing works so that it does not seem like a black box?

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A New Financial Model, Financial models and pricing structures
4/16/13
Don't announce a sticker price
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When MIT posts the full "sticker" price on its website it is possibly discouraging people from attending. MIT should give everyone a personal price for their financial situation.

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A New Financial Model, Financial models and pricing structures
4/16/13
Video is too expensive
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Currently, capturing video is a very manual process and is very expensive. There must be technology out there which can radically automate the video capture process. We should identify it and then roll out the same, standardized technology in every...

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A New Financial Model, Cost reduction strategies, Education & Facilities, Physical spaces, video
4/16/13
People Directory
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I’d like to see MIT vastly improve its people directory. Our current directory system (ie. http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgicso?query=theplaz) is based on vastly outdated technology. As...

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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Global Implications of EdX, Beyond the residential campus, it, people
4/16/13
What if MIT booked p-set and study rooms?
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For example, the 6.046 exam is tomorrow. What if the class staff booked a classroom (say 1-132) from say 5pm to 8am the next day and then publicized that room to the class. Then anyone who is looking for a study buddy could just drop by any time...

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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Physical spaces, room, space, study
4/15/13
widen the scope of the MIT experience
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I attended MIT from 1973 to 1976 - I've mourned the loss of that intense intellectual experience ever since. I don't mean the lectures, but the conversations with other students and teaching assistants who really cared about the ideas of the time. I...

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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences
4/13/13
Residential versus Online Education & Model for online education: www.w3schools.com
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I went to MIT from 1992-1997 and graduated with an M. Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. After taking a hiatus from the engineering world after working for five years, I recently had the pleasure of reading through MIT's...

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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Global Implications of EdX, Global implications of edX, Beyond the residential campus, Online versus residential education
4/12/13
Information can be disseminated online; an MIT education cannot.
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**Submitted by the Alumni Association on behalf of wlmlab@ucsf.edu, Class of 1965.**

Undergraduate education consists of three broad areas: 1) Learning factual material (e.g. basic courses in physics,...

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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Global Implications of EdX, Global implications of edX, Beyond the residential campus
4/12/13
Attached ideas may be of interest.
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**Posted by the MIT Alumni Association on behalf of joelhgoodman3@hotmail.com.**

Attached ideas may be of interest.

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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Physical spaces