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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, initiatives, and membership. Please drop by to learn more about MITCET and how the Council is shaping the future of technology in education at MIT.

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 engagement and dialog with the faculty: 

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 Tsar's abdication in early 1917, the year unfolded into an unprecedented sequence of historical, political and military initiatives and uprisings, some of them catastrophic, all of which shaped Soviet Russia for the rest of the 20th century.

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, and he presented on the work he has done leveraging the powerful animation tools used in Hollywood movies produced by Disney and Pixar.

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 gallery below...

Pset Central -  Erica Lai, Catherine Fan, Daniel Meza, Stephanie Yu, and Victor Hung.

BooksPicker - Sinchan Banerjee

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 experience with Hands-on learning and it's efficacy as a way to engage and retain students at risk for dropping out of science careers.

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, stable, robust computing environment created expressly for visualization tools in high performance computing.

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.

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AcademiX Conference

Fri, April 29, 11:00 - 4:00
Northeastern University

Egan Center Raytheon Amphitheater 120 Forsyth Street