About the Program

Guiding principles

Issues to be addressed

Core team

Executive sponsors

Faculty advisors

Stakeholders

Council on Educational
Technology (MITCET)

 

Program guiding principles:

  1. Program is scaleable and sustainable long term
  2. MIT benefits from knowledge/expertise gained from the development, delivery, and assessment of the modules.
  3. Contributes to MIT’s leadership as an educational innovator.
  4. Benefits on-campus education.
  5. Fully leverage current and related MIT activities and capabilities, matching faculty interest with market demand.
  6. Program participation must be attractive to faculty and make effective use of faculty time.
  7. MIT does not relinquish intellectual property rights and has agreement over their use by others.
  8. Faculty retain intellectual control over content.
  9. Modules maintain MIT's standard of excellence

Issues to be addressed as part of the plan:

  1. Fully defined value to MIT ¾ short and long term; tangible and intangible; …
  2. Organizational structure, process and oversight ¾ centralized, decentralized, or a combination; dedicated or shared resources; joint or hybrid. Roles of existing MIT groups, activities and initiatives, e.g., Professional Institute, CAES, EMCC, …
  3. Content ¾ suite of modules or individual offerings; areas/topics for focus; sources of and development of content; module characteristics: high or low end or a combination; …
  4. Market ¾ alumni, friends, corporate partners, on-campus students, faculty, staff. Market segments and their elasticity and accessibility. Geographies. …
  5. Partnerships ¾ university and/or business partners; production for hire; build or buy; …
  6. Ownership and financing ¾ intellectual property ownership; profit sharing and incentives; initial investments; revenue potentials; …
  7. Implementation plan based on final proposal.
  8. Assessment of and learning from our experience when projects are underway.

The plan will be presented to the MITCET and the Executive Sponsors this September, with the intention that it will be approved for implementation in the Fall 2000.

 
Contact: ganderso@mit.edu