Education, teaching, academics

Results of the 2012 Senior SurveyStudents value learning over grade point average

TIMtalks spotlight students who have turned failure into successEvent gives students an opportunity to discuss failure, achievement, MIT culture.

Department of Mechanical Engineering's Toy Lab 'PLAYsents' student-built prototypesIn 2.00b, students focus on their inner child.

Entrepreneurial students dive into product design and developmentJoint MIT-RISD course yields concepts from iPad-friendly backpacks to waste-free sugar.

Some MIT freshmen get high-level advisorsTop administrators ‘walk the talk’ by advising members of the Class of 2015.

Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finaleCompetition concludes mechanical design class, unleashing a wide variety of spinning, pumping and striking robots.

Studying school quality, to fight inequalityNew MIT center examines education and its lifelong effects.

SUTD marks start of its first academic yearSingaporean university, established in consultation with MIT, enrolls 340 students in its inaugural class.

SA+P hosts collegiate architecture schoolsThe culminating event of ACSA’s centennial celebration

Woodie Flowers, a pioneer of hands-on engineering educationFlowers and his former student, David Wallace, have created a fun, teamwork-based approach to learning the art of mechanical design.

The secrets of the systemMIT’s venerable Beer Game, a table contest, sheds light on the mysteries of manufacturing and the difficulties of running a business.

MIT and Harvard launch a ‘revolution in education’Online edX courses will open both universities’ classrooms to the world while enhancing on-campus learning.

MIT and Harvard announce edXJoint partnership builds on MITx and Harvard distance learning; aims to benefit campus-based education and beyond.

What is edX?Answering common questions about MIT and Harvard’s new partnership in online education.

Game theory, in the real worldMIT economist Parag Pathak engineers practical solutions to complicated education problems.

Abelson honored as outstanding educatorWins ACM's Karl V. Karlstom Award

AeroAstro’s Greitzer to receive Baker Teaching Award

MITx: What the students thinkFrom Buenos Aires to Honolulu to Montreal, a virtual community grows up around the online initiative’s prototype course.

Sara Ferry: A new generation works to fulfill the promise of nuclear energy

MIT OpenCourseWare publishes new resource for entrepreneurship educationEntrepreneurship course list supported by a grant from the NASDAQ OMX Foundation.

MIT launches student-produced educational video initiativeOriginal short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science.

MIT to host 2013 American Nuclear Society Student Conference

Taking an innovative approach to battery designDonald Sadoway’s radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.

Clarice Aiello: Finding quantum gold in diamond’s defect

De Florez Fund for Humor invites proposals for grants

Disruptive innovation — in educationFor Anant Agarwal, MITx, the Institute’s new online-learning initiative, isn’t just a means of democratizing education. It’s a way to reinvent it.

MIT establishes Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST)$1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will launch CAST.