On October 14, OEIT, the Teaching and Learning Laboratory, and the Office of Faculty Support co-hosted MIT's Ed Tech Fair 2009: Innovation, Transformation and Excellence in Learning.
The four-hour passion-filled event enjoyed a huge turnout, with a lively panel discussion featuring four MIT professors doing pioneering work in visualization and simulation, the student winners of the iCampus prize demonstrating their winning projects and over 25 presenters and exhibitors.
During an onsite interview at the event, Professor Daniel Hastings Dean of Undergraduate Education commented: “As I was walking around The Ed Tech Fair today, What I saw was a great deal of innovation and enthusiasm for learning and teaching, which is great, but I also see this is part of something bigger which is the idea that we are moving towards what we call “hybrid mode of education” which uses web-enabled and computer-enabled technologies and actual physical classroom learning, and this is part of that exploration of what we can actually do to improve student learning.”
The highlights from the event as well as some related information and resources--including the program, posters, photos, and videos--are available here.
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Building NE48-308, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Phone: (617) 252-1981; Fax: (617) 452-4044