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April 27, 2010
Haynes Miller and his colleagues presented to an enthusiastic crowd of over 40 faculty colleagues and educators on Friday, April 23. Originally funded in 2000 through a D'Arbeloff grant for course 18.03, Mathlets were designed as tools for...
April 16, 2010
On March 25th, MIT and OEIT hosted 100 teachers and educators for Learning Curve's Share Fair. With a focus on technology and teaching within Massachusetts school districts, the Learning Curve consortium provides ongoing professional...
March 11, 2010
Students: don't miss out on the opportunity to have your innovation rewarded! For complete guidelines for nominations and applications visit the OEIT news announcement and the Prize Guidelines and Application Information page. For additional...
March 2, 2010
SPIRAL Connect is a comprehensive learning management platform currently being piloted in University Lyon 1 in Lyon France. Christophe Batier's presentation here at MIT last Friday sparked a lively dialogue focussing on SPIRAL's impact on...
February 2, 2010
The NB project has created an online collaborative annotation tool for PDF documents which was recently awarded a d’Arbeloff grant. The grant will allow NB to collaborate with OEIT in order to help NB move to broader deployment.  NB has...
January 29, 2010
OEIT's STAR program (Software Tools for Academics and Researchers) has recently released a new website featuring a new graphic design and a new content management platform. For users, enhancements include streamlined navigation, updated...
December 15, 2009
Candace Thille’s Dec 14th Crosstalk presentation on the OLI learning environment sparked lively discussion and raised several topics of interest in regards to teaching and learning in the digital realm. Several topics are described further...
October 27, 2009
Toru Iiyoshi moderated and presented at a featured panel at the 6th annual conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning last week. The panel "SoTL 2.0: The Next Ten Years of Technology-Enhanced...
October 27, 2009
Viijay Kumar recently contributed to an ongoing discussion on open education throught the world.  Contrasting the high cost of building new universities versus the relatively low cost of expanding access to course material made available...
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October 19, 2009
On October 14, OEIT, the Teaching and Learning Laboratory, and the Office of Faculty Support co-hosted MIT's Ed Tech Fair 2009: Innovation, Transformation and Excellence in Learning. The four-hour passion-filled event enjoyed a huge turnout...
July 29, 2009
 "Innovation, Transformation, and Excellence in Learning" Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Lobby 13 (map) This event will showcase some of the ways MIT faculty, students and staff are using technology to advance...
July 8, 2009
A three-pronged framework -- open technology, open content & open knowledge -- makes learning more visible and thus shifts the focus from teaching to learning. Vijay Kumar's keynote address at 10th Sakai conference highlights the opportunities...
June 18, 2009
StarBiochem makes visible what is invisible. For biology students, offering a window into molecular structure can make the difference between comprehension and confusion. Lourdes Aleman & Molly Ruggles recently offered a hands-on workshop on 3D...
June 5, 2009
On May 28, Jeff Merriman & Brandon Muramatsu gave a presentation on OEIT's recent educational innovations for Share Fair's conference on Moodle in the K-12 sector. Their talk covered Visualizing Cultures, Software Tools for Academics and...
May 11, 2009
On April 29th the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) welcomed John Craig Freeman and Tamiko Thiel, two virtual artists, to MIT to talk about their installations and examine the educational impacts of their work. Working...
May 11, 2009
The MIT project Visualizing Cultures, which was created in 2002 to explore the potential of the Internet for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning, was awarded this year's Franklin R. Buchanan prize by the Association for...
March 18, 2009
Apple & OEIT sponsor MacLearning: AcademiX 2009, March 26th, on the MIT campus. A series of regional conferences focused on spurring change in teaching and scholarship through emergent digital learning environments, AcademiX 2009 at MIT is...
January 28, 2009
OEIT has launched a new portal for digital content creation. The site provides resources for applying visual arts, computer graphics, and digital media to develop educational content and enhance teaching and learning. One can visit its gallery of...
January 9, 2009
We are happy to announce that Toru Iiyoshi recently joined OEIT as Senior Strategist. Well known in the field of educational technology and technology-enhanced scholarship of teaching and learning for his work at the Carnegie Foundation, Toru was a...
October 10, 2008
LiNC (Learning International Networks Consortium) has launched a new program, BLOSSOMS (Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies), funded by Hewlett Packard and oriented towards math and science high school students in the USA, Jordan...

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