As we move toward creating effective online learning environments, we also need to be thinking about how the on-campus experience should change. The undergraduate experience is about many things, and not all of them are best learned online. It also...
Idea Bank: residential
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...
One of the most important aspects of the MIT education is the kind of people is gathers inside. The ones around us have incredible life stories of success, struggle, careers, relationships, teaching, learning, communication and cultures. However, what...
The MIT residential education experience cannot be replaced with online learning. The in-person connections between faculty and students and the collaborative atmosphere of the Institute are key to research innovations, and research and education are...