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April 4, 2005
E-learning developers in the 1990s fully embraced the spirit of the dot.com bubble: long on promise and short on delivery. In this presentation, Professor Miyagawa identifies some specific problems with e-learning development based on his own...
March 21, 2005
Prof. Hal Abelson will be presenting about the Creative Commons organization he helped to found in 2001. What: Ed Tech Partners Meeting (with lunch) Where: W20-Private Dining Rooms 1&2 (3rd floor of the Student Center...
March 4, 2005
Alan Levine from the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI) will discuss how the Center uses cutting edge technologies to support teaching and learning. (If you missed this Crosstalk event you can view it online.) What: Crosstalk...
March 2, 2005
Date: Friday, March 4, 2005 Time: 9:00 - 12:00, OR 1:00 - 4:00 Room: 1-134 Register: Go to the NI Registration site and select either the MIT a.m. or p.m. session. IS&T Academic Computing is sponsoring two sessions of an introductory LabVIEW...
February 10, 2005
Continuing our exploration of how tablet PCs can be used in the classroom, Dr. Hai Ning reports on research done by MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering on the use of tablets to enhance the creative process in project-based design-...
January 28, 2005
Thoughtfully and effectively integrating technology with teaching is an ongoing challenge for those of us who conduct research in, develop, or support educational technologies at MIT. Over the past year a number of our colleagues have won...
January 28, 2005
by Rich Garcia Can the Apple iPod -- the symbol of a generation of students plugged in to downloaded music -- serve as a delivery system for serious education? Experiments at several universities are exploring the iPod's value as an educational...
January 12, 2005
By Ruth Reynard The use of Internet technology to facilitate interaction, communication, and collaboration is well documented but its use in establishing and developing "personal voice" as part of learning is also now being addressed through the use...
January 10, 2005
What: Crosstalk Seminar on Educational Change Where: 4-237 When: Thursday, January 20 at 2:00 p.m. (Coffee at 2:00, presentation at 2:30) Title: Progress toward the Paperless Classroom: Using Tablet PC's at MIT and the HKU Medical Faculty Speaker...
January 6, 2005
By Mikael Blaisdell In the open source vs. commercial course management system debate, support turns out to be a deciding factor. Here’s why. Read this article in the Campus Technology online newsletter.
December 29, 2004
There are numerous educational technology events being offered this IAP including such diverse topics as how faculty can use e-mail to improve communications to students, a Matlab training series, using Dspace to archive class materials, advanced...
November 30, 2004
Handheld Games and Simulations for Learning - Participatory Simulations and Augmented Reality Eric Klopfer, Director of the MIT Teacher Education Program (TEP), Scheller Career Development Professor of Science Education and Educational Technology...
November 9, 2004
The Promise and Reality of Web-based Tutoring Professor David E. Pritchard, MIT physics department Thursday, November 18, 2004 2:00 p.m. Room 4-231 Abstract Textbooks, Lectures, and most educational uses of the web are like broadcast radio: a...
October 29, 2004
Come see what your colleagues at MIT are doing with educational technologies at the 2004 Ed Tech Fair which will be held Tuesday, November 2 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in Lobby 13. The theme of this year's fair is From Innovation to Impact...
October 14, 2004
By Jean Marie Angelo (FromUniversity Business magazine.) A group of universities have banded together to offer a low-cost course management software alternative; commercial vendors compete with new applications. In mid-July, just one week before...
October 8, 2004
By Phillip D. Long In 1999 Roger Schank, then at Northwestern University, said,“Classrooms are out! No more classrooms! Don’t build them!” Prof. Schank, now at Carnegie Mellon University West, was making the point that learning through active...
September 28, 2004
Project iCampus, the MIT-Microsoft Alliance for research in educational technology, is now soliciting research proposals for 2005-2006. The deadline is October 4. iCampus plans to fund several projects that will run for two years, each with a...
September 9, 2004
Information Services and Technology (IS&T) is exploring faculty interest in the extention of support for the use of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) for accessing MIT services such as e-mail, the TechTime calendar, and the Web. IS&T is...
September 9, 2004
September 21, noon - 5:00 p.m., 37-312. Registration required. A representative from Maplesoft will be giving two training sessions on Maple 9.5 the newest version of Maple (one introductory, one intermediate) in room 37-312 (Building 37 Windows...

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