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Co-sponsored by OEIT and the HHMI-MIT Biology Education group, Dr. Patrice Thiriet will speak about his work using 3-D Visualizations to Enhance Anatomy Education on:

Wednesday, January 26, 2011
10:30am – 12pm
Room 4-149

The MIT Council for Educational Technology (MITCET) and OEIT are pleased to announce that Michael (Mitcho) Yoshitaka Erlewine 'G, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, has been awarded the 2010 Microsoft Research iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize (the icampus student prize) for his work on "Sustainable Web Development for the MIT Community Using Wordpress". 

Have you ever thought, “My education at MIT would be infinitely better or easier if there was just a technology to…? Or, “Student life at MIT could be dramatically improved with the creative application of technology? Well, now’s the time to show MIT and your fellow classmates how you might provide solutions to these problems!

Join the ranks of Course Picker, NB and Lingt as winners of the iCampus Prize! Participate in the 2011 iCampus Technology Innovation Student Prize competition.

The MIT-Haiti Symposium, held Oct 21-22, sparked connections, possible collaborations and hopes for future action. Over 20 MIT faculty and administrators met with 18 Haitian educators and education leaders to explore areas of common interest.

Through facilitated dialogs and collective brainstorming sessions over the 2 day event, participants identified 3 areas for potential collaboration:

Many video services and resources are available at MIT. Now you can go to one place to find out about them: ACCORD’s new Video Recording and Delivery portal in the Teaching with Technology website.

MIT Professor Graham Walker, newly named 2010 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, will use portions of his HHMI grant to fund Dr. Stacie Bumgarner and Dr. Lourdes Aleman on advancing developments in the StarBiology tool and other tools in the STAR suite.

The MIT Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) 2010 Conference on May 23-26 hosted approximately 200 participants from 40 different countries who shared their ideas about and experiences in how universities worldwide can better provide distance education and e-learning resources to help improve student learning.

The NMC 2010 Summer Conference took place in early June in Anaheim California. Drawing a crowd of over 200 educators, artists, and technologists, the conference spanned 4 days of presentations, celebrations, forums, and live dancing at the House of Blues.

With more than 100 papers submitted from 40 different countries, and with authors traveling from five continents and as far away as the Fiji Islands, the fifth conference of MIT’s Learning International Network Consortium (LINC) (May 23-26) will address challenges and opportunities in education from a wide variety of perspectives.

Haynes Miller and his colleagues presented to an enthusiastic crowd of over 40 faculty colleagues and educators on Friday, April 23.