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By: Talia Gerstle | Amanda Schmidt | Blueprint Labs
Collaborative brings together charter school policy, practice, and research communities to help make research on charters more actionable, rigorous, and policy-relevant. Read more
By: Jesse Feiman | School of Science
If play is both useless and satisfying, Schulz asked, “What does that say about us? Are we doomed?” Certainly not. From her perspective, play is arbitrary but it is not irrational. Read more
By: MIT Open Learning
MITili has granted nearly $1.8 million to help advance the science of learning across a broad range of subjects and throughout the lifespan of the learner, from K-12 to higher education and workplace learning.
By: MIT EECS
The Thriving Stars program in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) aims to improve gender representation at the PhD level, as less than 25 percent of doctoral candidates in EECS identify as women. Watch
By: Angela Pignatiello
Using outlines from the EECS undergraduate degree track as laid out on the department’s website, Kabwe discovered math, programming, foundations, and elective classes to create his own EECS experience.
By: Sara Feijo and Katherine Ouellette
More than 250 people got a behind-the-scenes look at some of MIT’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence projects during the “Generative AI + Education’’ symposium.
By: Sara Feijo and Katherine Ouellette
In a Nov. 29 “Generative AI + Education’’ symposium hosted by MIT Open Learning, leaders in education took more than 250 people on a journey to the future of generative AI in and beyond the classroom.
By: Stefanie Koperniak | MIT Open Learning
Speaking at the virtual MITx MicroMasters Program Joint Completion Celebration last summer, Diogo da Silva Branco Magalhães described watching a Spider-Man movie with his 8-year-old son and realizing that his son thought MIT was a fictional entity that existed only in the Marvel universe.
By: Zach Winn | MIT News
In collaboration with My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Cambridge, the LIFT program offered 18- to 24-year-old local residents an intensive, six-week course covering invention, technology, and entrepreneurship. Read more
By: The Tech
"I find political science and anthropology interesting, but history just has a special place in my heart since I have loved this subject ever since I was young." - MIT's Haydn Long, Class of 2026 Read more