Blog RSS FeedBy 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...
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...
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...
By Mikael Blaisdell
In the open source vs. commercial course management system debate, support turns out to be a deciding factor. Here’s why.
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,...
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...
(From Tomorrow's Professor mailing list)
The Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning (SCIL Switzerland) this fall announced, in a joint effort with...
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
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(Joint Crosstalk/Ed Tech Partners presentation)
Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 11:00pm ââ‚...
A course reader is a compilation of
different materials chosen by a professor and assembled into a paper “bookâ€
that students can purchase as reference for a particular subject. MIT's...
What's New at What Runs Where
This spring has seen the arrival of important new revisions of Maple and
FrameMaker, as well as some new-to-Athena software packages, and all of these are described at the What...
Academic Computing is considering purchasing a site license for on-line video-based MATLAB and Maple tutorials developed by...
Speaker:
William J. Mitchell
Head, Media Arts and Sciences
Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences
In addition to the redesign of the back room of the W20 student computing cluster, the cluster in 56-129 will be closing for renovations on June 9 and is scheduled to be reopened sometime in July....
Vijay Kumar, Director, Academic Computing, Assistant Provost
Jean Foster, Editor, Ed Tech Times
We are happy to introduce the Ed Tech Times...
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