Idea Bank: Beyond the residential campus

4/3/13
Lectures may become relevant for more of the reasons that live rock concerts are relevant
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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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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Physical spaces, Global Implications of EdX, Beyond the residential campus, rock concerts, edX, lectures, in-person, remote learning
4/3/13
“Remote Branch Campus” Concept
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A hypothetical university enrolls 100 students in its freshman class. Without fail, 10% of those students drop out during their first year. This university could accept an additional 40 students to take online courses only. These 40 students would...

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A New Financial Model, Improving accessibility and affordability, Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Global Implications of EdX, Beyond the residential campus, online, branch campus
4/3/13
Certifications
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Average: 1 (1 vote)

My sister recently took her actuarial exam. She has a math degree, but not necessarily the course work to pass the first exam. This seems like an ideal place to utilize online course work. Maybe companies/individuals could spend a few hundred bucks...

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A New Financial Model, Improving accessibility and affordability, Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Global Implications of EdX, Beyond the residential campus, online certifications
4/3/13
“MIT missionaries” Concept
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I can imaging taking one professor, placing him in a community college with 20 (excellent) students and giving him full access to the online courses. In 4 years and with a few bucks for the professor’s time and for class projects, you could have 20...

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A New Financial Model, Improving accessibility and affordability, Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Global Implications of EdX, Global implications of edX, Beyond the residential campus, online, remote
4/3/13
"Concept-ize" MIT education
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Average: 3.6 (9 votes)

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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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Academic year, Global Implications of EdX, Beyond the residential campus, concept maps, flexible learning, project-based learning
4/2/13
International internet courses
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Enhance the class experience by generating interaction among different kinds of groups. For example in a course, create a problem set that has to be solved by teams in different countries. The teams can't meet in person and so have to resolve the...

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Education & Facilities, Educational experiences, Global Implications of EdX, Beyond the residential campus, interaction online