Idea Bank: project-based learning

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For many MIT-bound high school students, the last year of high school is a waste of time. In addition, many students come in with AP credit for a semester's or year's worth of calculus, physics, biology, and/or chemistry. Perhaps MIT could accept...

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With Ed X and OCW, MIT shares in developing a platform for online education. Education is evolving rapidly - there are some needs met well by MOOCs at a small cost per student and with maximum flexibility and minimum risk to finances and reputation...

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Even if distance learning and other models take the place of many traditional lecture classes, there is one learning model that is particularly effective in the residential-university setting of MIT: Project-based, team-oriented learning. This is a...

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Students learn unique skills and insights when working with hands-on, real world challenges. This is true in developing solutions to address energy, environment, and sustainability challenges. MIT should create a Campus Sustainability Learning...

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Break MIT subjects into atomistic concepts that are linked across the entire institute--each concept might take a day or a week to master, but much shorter than a semester-long class. Students learn what they want to learn, and they can see how each...

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