Education, teaching, academics

A new wrinkle in online educationAn experimental online course gives some students scheduling freedom.

With an educational ‘revolution’ afoot, Task Force on the Future of MIT Education to conveneIdea Bank to solicit community input.

OCW supports independent study for N.J. high school studentsWired New Jersey principal uses MIT OpenCourseWare to expand educational opportunities

OCW provides challenges for talented young studentIndian teen Tuhin Bagi uses MIT OpenCourseWare to enhance his studies and set his sights on future endeavors.

Faculty describe experiments with digital learning on MacVicar DayParticipants discuss how they are 'reimagining the MIT classroom.'

Terrascope: Not the typical first semester classCourse requires undergrads to work in teams to present solutions to a complex problem with an interdisciplinary approach

Searching for solar systems like our ownJosh Winn’s hunt for exoplanets may someday reveal habitable, Earth-like worlds.

Four professors named 2013 MacVicar FellowsGriffith, Miller, Schulz and Teng awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.

New international fellowship to honor Charles VestMIT will be one of eight U.S. universities to participate.

New rankings acclaim MIT’s graduate programs in engineering, businessMIT leads in seven engineering disciplines and three business fields, says U.S. News & World Report.

Higher-ed leaders meet to discuss future of online educationInnovative pedagogical techniques and the effects of online-learning tools on on-campus education subjects of conversation at MIT- and Harvard-led summit.

Undergraduate tuition and fees to rise 3.4 percent next yearIncrease to be offset by financial aid expenditures, which will grow to a record $97.6 million.

MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegatesThe Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.

Six new institutions join edXConsortium doubles its institutional membership with the addition of universities in Australia, Europe, Canada and the United States.

Office of Educational Innovation and Technology joins the Office of Digital Learning

What’s the cost and financial value of college?At MIT, experts say evidence shows the payoff from college education remains high.

Institute-Wide Task Force aims to sketch the MIT education of the futureSaying ‘we are in the midst of an educational revolution,’ President L. Rafael Reif asks Professor Sanjay Sarma and EVP and Treasurer Israel Ruiz to lead an effort to envision the MIT of 2020 and beyond.

IS&T addresses concerns about MIT’s networkInformation Services & Technology sheds light on recent service interruptions, as well as steps taken to mitigate risks to the MIT network.

Duflo, Lander, Lewin to lead spring-semester MITx coursesEdX takes stock of last semester’s MITx courses; data will be used to improve education online and in the classroom.

A physicist and her neutrinosMIT senior Christie Chiu has found her focus: the study of tiny particles.

Students develop assistive technologiesUndergraduate teams create helpful phone apps and devices for people with disabilities.

Skoltech, MIT reflect on first year of collaborationAnniversary event celebrates international ties.

American Philosophical Association honors Judith Jarvis ThomsonBestows Quinn Prize for lifelong contributions to philosophy

Inspiring the next generationTelling Your Story workshop connects scientist and engineers with teachers and in the process helps to demystify STEM and excite the next generation of learners.

MIT admits 650 talented and diverse students through early actionChanges in admissions process keep pace with rise in applications.

Outsized influenceMIT Philosophy has extraordinary success placing PhD graduates in top tenure-track positions.