We've been working with undergrad and graduate engineering and science students at the Wright Brothers Institute to give them an opportunity to work on real-life, challenging national security problems. We are using virtual collaboration as the...
Idea Bank: Global Implications of EdX
4/3/13
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Remember, back in school, that professor who was an absolute genius but couldn't teach his way out of a paper bag?
And did you ever have a teacher who was truly masterful at transferring his or her knowledge to you?
There is a wide...
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4/3/13
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Learning by doing will be the norm.
I imagine people going to MIT for short and regular periods of times with questions and challenges, people will gather around unstructured knowledge, and solve problems, come up with ideas and transform...
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4/3/13
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It is becoming increasingly well understood that students' abilities to take advantage of their education is based in large part on how well prepared they are for the school that they attend. MIT seeks to offer world class education to a diverse...
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4/3/13
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I think one of the inherent flaws of online education is that it's hard to produce physical results, which is especially important for engineers. MIT's motto is mens et manus, and it's a motto that's more rooted in reality than most universities'. As...
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4/3/13
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One of our macro goals in the community is to retain the talent that we gather here at MIT from around the world. The more students are integrated into the life of the wider Cambridge/Boston community while they are here, the better. As such,...
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4/3/13
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When I was a student at Sloan (SM'95) and later teaching at Sloan, some of my most powerful experiences came from being on the road with small teams. I went with teams for a week plus to Mexico, Argentina/Chile, and Singapore, and took a team of my...
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4/3/13
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MIT would accept applications from entrepreneurs who wish to come to MIT to create new companies. Each entrepreneur would agree to give at least one seminar on entrepreneurship each semester. These entrepreneurs would be self funded or funded by...
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4/3/13
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Both on-campus and online learning have advantages in how people learn, cost of education, accessibility, etc. The future MIT must combine the best on-campus experience with the best virtual experience offering the right material, through the right...
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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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