IS&T Spotlight:
ACCORD Helps Faculty Teach with Technology
Faculty and instructors at the Institute can tap into multiple services and resources to leverage technology in their courses. To make these options easier to discover, ACCORD – MIT’s Academic Computing Coordination group – recently revamped the Teaching with Technology web site. Here are some of the highlights.
- Class Management Tools. MIT offers a rich set of choices for communicating and collaborating with students. These range from tried-and-true email lists and discussion boards to class blogs and wikis. Stellar, MIT’s course management system, makes it easy to build class web sites.
- Multimedia, Software, and Digital Documents. MIT offers many services for creating online course materials. Among them are video capture and editing, podcasting, webcasting, streaming media, web site design, educational software support, digital conversion, and e-reserves.
- Learning Spaces. At MIT you can find technology spaces designed for a variety of learning activities. These include electronic classrooms, collaborative spaces, Athena clusters, and the New Media Center.
About ACCORD
ACCORD brings together the many educational technology service providers that support teaching and learning on campus. Participants include ACCORD’s core group – the Libraries, the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education (DUE), and Information Services and Technology (IS&T) – as well as the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT), OpenCourseWare (OCW), and academic departments.
By offering one-stop convenience, ACCORD enables faculty to avoid an alphabet soup of organizational acronyms. To find out more, visit the Teaching with Technology web site or request an ACCORD brochure by sending email to accord@mit.edu or by going to the MIT ACCORD web site.
These sources also provide contact information for support and training.
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