Expanding the reach of education will place a greater emphasis on the need for leaders. Making skills and knowledge more widely accessible will make the ability to effectively channel that knowledge towards applications that benefit humanity will be...
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4/3/13
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In the future, lectures may become relevant for more of the reasons that live rock concerts are relevant.
In the past, one chose MIT over other experiences because of reputation.
Perhaps that was once true of rock concerts too ("You...
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4/3/13
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My work in planning and current research is indicating that cities - independent of location and culture - show an adherence to power laws to the effect that in doubling the population size requires only about 85% of the investment in infrastructure...
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4/3/13
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I took the very first computer course at MIT. It is one thing to learn to program, but it is another to understand the numerical methods and issues. When I was at MIT, there were no such courses. Last year when I looked, there were just two, one of...
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4/3/13
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I love how online texts, demos and videos are increasingly available to students. But I believe that MIT courses should never totally be online. Online material offers incredibly valuable supplements, but an MIT education would simply not be an MIT...
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4/3/13
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Lots of great ideas have emerged in education in recent years, such as the idea of a flipped classroom, remote learning initiatives, project-based classrooms, etc. However, it's not clear to me to what extent these new methodologies are actually being...
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4/3/13
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A lot of the benefit of an MIT education comes from interaction with other students and the faculty. I can't imagine that online classes can duplicate that.
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4/3/13
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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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4/3/13
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I happen to prefer on-line activities, but a friend tells me of her dyslexic son, who's having a terrible time in college because his required courses are on line. He needs in-person classes to accommodate his disability, but his college isn't...
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4/3/13
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MIT policy should be changed to make all intellectual property developed by anyone at MIT the sole property of the inventor(s). The primary reason for this is that the current process slows down innovation tremendously. A secondary reason is that...
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