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January 20, 2012
Early Bird Registration is now open for the NERCOMP 2012 conference, held on March 12-14 in Providence. Conference theme: Does Technology Enhance or Limit Human Interactions?   This conference is a great opportunity to meet up with...
Early Bird Registration is now open for the <a href="http://educause.informz.net/educause/archives/archive_2008467.html">NERCOMP 2012</a> conference, held on March 12-14 in Providence.
January 18, 2012
The Sloan-C Online Learning Symposium Call for Presentations is now open. (Closes March 5). Symposium will be July 25-27, Las Vegas, NV.
The Sloan-C Online Learning Symposium Call for Presentations is now open. (Closes March 5). Symposium will be July 25-27, Las Vegas, NV.
December 20, 2011
Last three days to submit! CFP extended until Friday Feb 3rd. The New Media Consortium has opened the Call for Proposals for their 2012 Summer Conference. With the conference at MIT this year in June 2012, participation in the conference is a...
October 26, 2011
Dear Mom, I had a great time at camp! THATCampNE turned the traditional conference format on its head: instead of the expected pre-arranged program, sessions were determined on the fly. Attendees voted for sessions of interest, so that the...
October 24, 2011
Several years ago, Boston College developed a software application called MediaKron. MediaKron allows faculty to create and deliver media-rich content in creative ways. The original product development was funded through a Davis Educational...
BC is seeking five partner institutions to develop two faculty projects each in MediaKron over the next two years.
October 17, 2011
OEIT is pleased to announce a new initiative in educational visualization: ARTEMiS For more information about the group and its initiatives, please visit the ARTEMiS website, and the Project Gallery.
October 15, 2011
Unable to attend EDUCAUSE 2011 in Philadelphia this year? Take advantage of the online event instead! Learn and network with other IT professionals in higher education without leaving the MIT campus. IS&T has arranged to show the online...
Unable to attend EDUCAUSE 2011 in Philadelphia this year? Take advantage of the online event instead!
September 27, 2011
Professor Jeffrey Miller will speak on Integrating Undergraduates into Educationally Meaningful Research Programs and Courses Monday, October 3, 2011 @ 2:30 pm in the Koch Institute Auditorium Professor Miller is a professor and chair of...
Professor Jeffrey Miller will speak on <strong>Integrating Undergraduates into Educationally Meaningful Research Programs and Courses </strong> Monday, October 3, 2011 @ 2:30 pm in the Koch Institute Auditorium
September 7, 2011
OEIT invites members of the MIT community interested in learning more about Open Education to join us for the webcast of the ELI Fall Focus Session on Open Educational Content. Wed. Sept. 14 & Thurs. Sept. 15 (from 12-5:30 each day) in NE48-...
OEIT invites members of the MIT community interested in learning more about Open Education to join us for the webcast of the ELI Fall Focus Session on Open Education on Wednesday, September 14 and Thursday, September 15.
September 6, 2011
The second annual THATCamp New England will be held at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Friday, October 21, and Saturday, October 22. THATCamp ("The Humanities and Technology Camp") is a conference to discuss how...
August 23, 2011
OEIT's Star development team and the MIT Biology Department have recently received an NSF grant to fund the creation of a visualization tool for enriching the teaching and learning of cell and molecular biology concepts. Following a design...
August 9, 2011
MIT's Council on Educational Technology has a new website. With archives of MITCET meetings and a resource area for recent publications and white papers, the website offers a comprehensive introduction to the Council's mission,...
June 22, 2011
OEIT's director Vijay Kumar was recently interviewed by Education-Portal.com during the OpenCourseWare Consortium held at MIT last month. Dr. Kumar talked about OEIT's unique approach to educational innovation which involves active...
May 16, 2011
Professor Elizabeth Wood's Russian history timeline, in its second year of evolution, now reflects a broader array of perspectives on a tumultuous and critical year of the Russian Revolution. With deep-seated unrest agitating towards the...
May 2, 2011
Gael McGill spoke on Friday May 6th as part of the ongoing Biology Education Group series, co-sponsored by the Biology department and OEIT. Dr. McGill's research uses bio-visualization as a way to communicate cell data in 3 dimensional space...
April 25, 2011
Microbiologist Prof Rich Kosick of the Harvard University IDEAS program outlined his program to bring diversify to the fields of science scholarship and research at last week's Biology Group Meeting on Friday April 15. He also shared his...
April 25, 2011
The five iCampus finalist teams presented their projects last Friday to an audience of MIT faculty, fellow students and the institute community. The finalists were: Pset Central, BooksPicker, Planner, CrowdSkimmer, and Booksxor. Enjoy the photo...
April 20, 2011
Justin Riley, of OEIT’s Star team, has recently updated and improved the Star Molsim suite of computational tools and completed a migration of the tools to the NanoHUB collaborative computing environment. Funded by NSF, NanoHUB is a secure,...
April 11, 2011
The second meeting of the Biology Education Group seminar series, on April 7, sponsored Dr Ishara Mills-Henry's presentation on her NIH funded curriculum initiative, Science of the Eye. Assisted by Prof Jonathan...
April 8, 2011
You are invited to the: AcademiX Conference Fri, April 29, 11:00 - 4:00 Northeastern University Egan Center Raytheon Amphitheater 120 Forsyth Street Redefining the university experience: Discover how mobile devices and iOS are helping...

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