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Festival of Learning 2019
Office of Digital Learning, VP of Open Learning
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Jan/30 | Wed | 09:30AM-04:00PM | multiple locations |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
A day of immersive learning, futuristic experiences, and visions of education to come.
This is a free event for the MIT community. Registration is required. Register for all or part of the day.
Schedule:
9:30-10 (10-250 Lobby) Continental breakfast.
10-11 (10-250) Keynote: Math For All: Building a Thinking Society, Po-Shen Loh
11-12:30 (10-250) Panel: Virtual Experience, Real Liberation: Technologies for Education and the Arts
-Extended Reality (XR) Technologies for Social Empowerment and Learning, D. Fox Harrell
-Using Immersive Virtual Environments to Combat Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat, Tabitha Peck
-Bringing the Joy of Music Making to Non-Musicians, Eran Egozy
12:30-2 (Lobby 10 & Lobby 13) Learning Expo highlighting 30 educational initiatives and projects. Lunch provided.
2:00 Workshops
-Applying Learning Sciences to Instruction: An Introductory Workshop with Aaron Kessler (2:00-4:00; 1-190)
-Experiential Learning at MIT: What’s Our Future? with Kate Trimble (2:00-3:30; 36-156)
-An Introduction to Body-Ownership Illusions with Tabitha Peck (2:00-3:00; 66-168)
This is a free event for the MIT community but registration is required.
Questions? festival-learning@mit.edu. To learn more & for speaker and workshop leader bios: openlearning.mit.edu/festival.
Sponsor(s): Office of Open Learning
Contact: Mary Ruggles, NE49-2081C, 617 324-9185, RUGGLES@MIT.EDU
Reality Virtually Hackathon
Scott W. Greenwald, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Alexander Laiman
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Jan/17 | Thu | 09:00AM-11:00PM | MIT Media Lab |
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Jan/18 | Fri | 07:00AM-12:00PM | MIT Media Lab |
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Jan/19 | Sat | 07:00AM-12:00AM | MIT Media Lab |
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Jan/20 | Sun | 07:00AM-08:00PM | MIT Media Lab |
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Jan/21 | Mon | 09:00AM-05:00PM | MIT Media Lab |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Repeating event, participants welcome at any session
The Reality Virtually Hackathon is a five-day event focused on learning and innovation in the area of immersive computing technology (virtual reality, augmented reality, and so on). It is an MIT Media Lab event, sponsored and attended by companies representing all major platforms including Magic Leap, Microsoft, Oculus, HTC, and more.
The event kicks off with a day of hands-on workshops, for participants to familiarize themselves with tools, technologies, and techniques relevant for developing successful projects. Next, teams are formed at an evening event. It is expected that teams will form at the event, among participants who have not worked together previously.
The hackathon lasts all day Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
The final day includes the awards ceremony, an expo, and a symposium.
APPLY NOW at https://realityvirtuallyhack.com.
Sponsor(s): Media Lab, Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Scott W. Greenwald, (970) 281-2040, scottgwald@media.mit.edu
The Federal SBIR Program: Program Basics + How to Apply
Melissa Wong, Program Manager, Rachael Sack, Chief of Innovative Research Program Office
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Jan/28 | Mon | 12:30PM-02:00PM | E25-111 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/25
Limited to 150 participants
The SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program helps small businesses engage in R&D with potential for commercialization. Melissa Wong and Rachael Sack, SBIR representatives from the Volpe Center, will provide an overview of the SBIR program, including information on the program’s purpose, eligibility, sources of funding, and ideas on what is necessary for a successful application.
The seminar is designed to provide enough information to determine if the program is right for you and if you would like to seriously pursue SBIR proposal development.
This session is part of the "Intellectual Property Speaker Series" co-sponsored by the Technology Licensing Office and MIT Libraries. Lunch will be provided to attendees of the Intellectual Property Speaker Series events.
Please register for the seminar and lunch here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-federal-sbir-program-program-basics-how-to-apply-iap-2019-tickets-53623349883?aff=1281902
FREE SWAG!
We will also be giving away some branded MIT Libraries and Technology Licensing Office swag to participants who attend any 6 sessions from this series, so please check out our other sessions! http://mit_tlo.eventbrite.com
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office, Libraries
Contact: Karen Baird, NE18-501, 617 324-2386, KSHANER@MIT.EDU
The Minerva Model
Kara Gardner, Associate Dean
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Jan/23 | Wed | 10:30AM-11:30AM | 3-270 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/22
This active seminar discussion will introduce participants to Minerva’s educational model, including the technology we use to facilitate our classes, the Forum platform. Our goal at Minerva is to take students with the highest potential and train them to become leaders, innovators, broad thinkers, and global citizens.
To that end, we have designed a curriculum focused on “great cognitive tools,” rather than “great books.” In the 21 st century, students need more than just an introduction to content at the university level – they need tools to help them process and make use of information. The Minerva curriculum provides students with habits of mind and foundational concepts organized into four core competencies: critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. All students learn these habits and concepts during our first-year cornerstone courses, and they continue to be measured on their use and mastery of the HCs throughout their four years of study. They apply these skills and concepts inside and outside of the classroom as they travel in cohorts, living in up to six cities around the globe. Our goal is for students to graduate with a skills they can apply in a variety of professional contexts, and tools that will help them solve an array of difficult problems.
Contact: Ryan MacDowell, rymac@mit.edu
Train the Trainer: Open Science Framework
Ian Sullivan
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 2-147, Bring your laptop |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
This workshop is designed to work with your own research support team tobuild open science and reproducible research training capacity on campus. This workshop introduces the curriculum materials that support OSF training sessions and consultations with researchers, presents OSF training philosophy and tips gathered from multiple campuses about persuading researchers to adopt open practices, and discusses how these materials might be adapted to your individual institutional needs.
Register: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/4861048
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Amy Nurnberger, nurnberg@mit.edu
Web Accessibility Workshops
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 10 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: None
The Accessibility/Usability Team in Student Disability Services/Student Support and Wellbeing is offering the following topic-based workshops to MIT students, faculty and staff during IAP. Sign up for one workshop or sign up for all. Limited to 10 attendees per session. Bring your laptop!
January 10 Evaluating Web Accessibility
Not sure if your website meets accessibility guidelines? We will review simple ways to evaluate your site including using automated checkers like WAVE.
January 17 Color and Accessibility Standards
Learn about web accessibility standards for color and how you can meet them. We will discuss color contrast issues and tools for measuring contrast, as well as ways to use color effectively so that all users can access the information.
January 24 Making Images and Graphics Accessible: Using Alternative Text
Visual and graphic information need to have alternative text or “alt text” to make them accessible to users who can’t see them. Learn about different types of images and the corresponding alt text needed for each type. We will also review how to create good image descriptions.
January 31 Captioning and Transcripts
To be consistent with best practice, videos must contain captions and audio files like podcasts need to have written transcripts. Information on captioning tools and outsourcing will be discussed.
Sponsor(s): ATIC Lab
Contact: Kathleen Cahill, 7-143, 617 253-5111, KCAHILL@MIT.EDU
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Jan/10 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 8-119, Bring your laptop |
Not sure if your website meets accessibility guidelines? We will review simple ways to evaluate your site including using automated checkers like WAVE.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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Jan/17 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 2-146, Bring your laptop |
Learn about web accessibility standards for color and how you can meet them. We will discuss color contrast issues and tools for measuring contrast, as well as ways to use color effectively so that all users can access the information.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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Jan/24 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 2-146, Bring your laptop |
Visual and graphic information needs to have alternative text or alt text to make them accessible to users who can't see them. Learn about different types of images and the corresponding alt text needed for each type. We will also review how to create good image descriptions.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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Jan/31 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:00PM | 2-146, Bring your laptop |
To be consistent with best practice, videos must contain captions and audio files like podcasts need to have written transcripts. Information on captioning tools and outsourcing will be discussed.
Assistive Technology Info Center (ATIC) Staff
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