UPOP uses experiential learning to bolster students’ professional development and teaches them effective communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills in an interactive environment. Read more
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With help from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Harvard, and the Florida Center for Reading Research, MIT is preparing learners by helping them become better readers. The Reach Every Reader initiative was recently recognized for their work in North Carolina schools.
Christopher Wang, a senior in EECS, shares his favorite study spaces, how he discovered theater at the Institute, and what he'll miss most. Read more
The all-volunteer student-run bike shop, founded by graduate student Bianca Champenois, provides repair and maintenance services, emphasizes hands-on learning, and promotes sustainable transportation. Read more
Boosted by the explosion in smartphone adoption and the fact App Inventor is free (and eventually open source), soon more than 70,000 teachers were using it with hundreds of thousands of students, with Google providing the backend infrastructure to keep it going.
Developed by MIT RAISE, the AI curriculum embodies the missions of the Institute and MIT Open Learning. Read more
At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, faculty and instructors, students, staff, and alumni exchanged perspectives about the digital tools and innovations they’re experimenting with in the classroom.
There are over 240 million children with disabilities around the world, and more than half cannot access an education. But through inclusive design, we can help more children and youth with disabilities learn.
In the year or so since the public release of ChatGPT, learning has already being disrupted by generative AI. While potential benefits, such as AI-powered individual tutoring, are massive, there are risks, such as a decrease in social learning and important ethical considerations.
The MIT Emerging Talent program launched the fifth cohort of its Certificate in Computer and Data Science in September 2023 with 100 individuals. Selected from more than 2,000 applicants, 85 percent of these learners are refugees, migrants, or have been impacted by forced displacement.