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On Friday, March 11, the first meeting of the newly reformed Biology Education Group drew an enthusiastic crowd of 30 to learn about the Biology Department's outreach activities, and the recently updated visualization tool, Star Genetics.

MIT's cross-departmental group ACCORD, met on March 24th to discuss issues relating to campus printing, student IT advisory and outreach strategies.

Founded in honor of Margaret MacVicar, physicist, teacher, and first dean of undergraduate education at MIT, MacVicar Day and the MacVicar Faculty Fellowships program were established in 1992 in recognition of Dr. MacVicar's life and contributions.

Conceptually analogous to a laboratory research group, the Education Group was first created by HHMI Professor Graham Walker of the MIT Department of Biology in 2002. In September 2010, Professor Walker reestablished the group and it is once again active on the MIT campus and beyond!

David Wiley delivered one of the general session addresses for the 2011 ELI conference on Tuesday Feb 15.

OEIT is hosting a webcast of the 2011 Educause Learning Initiative Conference from Monday, Feb 14 through Wednesday, Feb 16, in NE48 Rm 3027.

Patrice Thiriet and Olivier Rastello presented their suite of 3D visualization tools for anatomy education on Wednesday, Jan 26. The tools were created at the University of Lyon1 in France, by a team including technologists, domain experts and visual artists who have compiled an open source suite available to all users. The interactive tools allow students to explore various aspects of human anatomy from perspectives that were hitherto impossible.

OEIT director, Vijay Kumar, was recently honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Chosen for their outstanding achievements, Distinguished Alumni participate in an award function, held as part of the Institute Day on April 21, 2011. The Institute intends for distinguished alumni to inspire current IIT students.

Over 25 people from throughout the institute, as well as interested educational technology experts from neighboring institutions, attended OEIT's open discussion on E-Learning on Jan 25th.

Hosted by Senior OEIT Strategist Toru Iiyoshi, the open session was an exploration of the possibilities and potentials of technology-enabled education at MIT.