Idea Bank: Educational experiences

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I do not think that remote learning can replace the residential college. My company has tried allowing engineers to work remotely many times without great success except on very narrow and well-defined software development projects. Engineers who...

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My belief is that one of the big missing pieces in the US educational system is providing young people perspectives on all the different professions that are available and what it means to select one. I believe that there needs to be a process,...

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I guess the obvious question is whether an education at Tech has left a lot to be desired. Change solely for the sake of change and boldness isn't much of a virtue, at least to my thinking. If we can do a better job of educating students without...

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I find there is a disconnect between the American Education System and its government. While I am currently happy with the Obama administration, I find that if all civilians were encouraged to participate in their government, the outcome would be...

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Combining more traditional learning of physics with engineering design seminars works well. For several years, I taught a seminar on electricity and magnetism in the Experimental Study Group as an alumni volunteer, coordinated with daytime classroom...

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Not all students arrive on the first day of classes with the same skills sets, learning habits, comfort levels, maturity, etc. So channelling them all into a single type of learning environment, be it big group lectures, on-line lectures, on-line...

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The following message was sent to the email address listed at the bottom of this page but bounced back as no such user so I'm posting the message here.

To: mitedu-cochairs@exchange.mit.edu...

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People learn very efficiently when they are engaged in a project and they find they need to understand something to make progress -- the learning is much more efficient than when someone is told to learn something because they might need it someday....

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One aspect of this program should be to address the age-old question of what you wish to accomplish by the educational program, but now in the context of society and technology of today. Also, to recognize that MIT's objectives will be different from...

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Educational experiences, 2020:

Laboratory classes continue as at present on campus. All courses employ a mix of in-person classes and online lectures and homework, but with fewer in-person classes. So, many fewer professors and teaching...

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