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Toru Iiyoshi

EdTech Times Blog

March 8, 2006

Lisa Mayer
Web and Database Consultant
IS&T Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD)


When you see students walking on campus with headphones plugged in their ears, they may be studying...

February 15, 2006

Speaker: Peter S. Donaldson

Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Head of Literature Faculty

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Day: Friday, Feb 24, 2006

Time: 1:00p–2:...

February 8, 2006

Katie Livingston-Vale, Ed.D.

Team Leader, Educational Technology Consultants

IS&T Academic Computing


Online journals called "weblogs" or "blogs" are now being employed in MIT courses to teach...

November 4, 2005

Violeta M. Ivanova, Ph.D.
Math and Engineering Educational Technology Consultant
IS&T Academic Computing

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November 2, 2005

With iPods slowly working their way into college classrooms, it was only a matter of time before someone put the devices to use as a way of cutting corners on course work.

Now a pair of companies has stepped up, offering a line of iPod-...

October 12, 2005

LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium), will hold its third annual symposium at MIT on October 27th and 28th, 2005. LINC is an MIT-affiliated program that works with educational leaders in developing countries to facilitate and...

October 6, 2005

Digital Natives': A new generation of college students has arrived, and many of them have no interest in long lectures. How much should colleges change to accommodate the so-called Millennials?

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October 3, 2005

Date: Thursday, October 6
Time: 4:00 - 6:00

Room: 4-237

A representative from National Instruments Corp. will be on campus to
demonstrate features of the company's product,...

September 19, 2005

When: Thursday, September 22, 3:30pm-5:30pm

Where: Digital Instruction Resource Center (14N-132)

Build your knowledge of library solutions that enhance teaching and
learning, including course-integrated library instruction,...

September 19, 2005

The GIS Lab is offering five one-hour workshops this fall to help people get started using Geographic Information Systems at MIT.

Workshop topics include:

  • ...
June 3, 2005

The Emerson College Learning Portal Project is the latest and most ambitious iteration in their experiments in multimedia pedagogy. Combining blog and portal technology, this system has implications for pedagogy, software design, and the...

June 1, 2005

stellar-logo-type.gifWhat would you do to make Stellar more useful?

Each Spring and Fall semester, a new version of the...

May 19, 2005

Are Google searches just getting your users in the ballpark? Not having the right metadata is like having a ticket to the game, but no seat number. Discover how metadata can make your digital resources more accessible.

What:...

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...

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)
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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...

March 2, 2005

Date: Friday, March 4, 2005

Time: 9:00 - 12:00, OR 1:00 - 4:00

Room: 1-134

Register:
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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...

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...

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...

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