How MIT’s ambitious Better World Campaign helped Open Learning’s mission and programs evolve to meet today’s global education needs — Last fall, MIT announced the successful end of the Campaign for a Better World, the largest campaign in MIT’s history. …

Producing multimedia for online courses involves lifelong learning — By Darcy G. Gordon, PhD Instructor of Blended and Online Learning Initiatives, MITx Digital Learning Scientist, Biology As a biologist who has made my own figures for publications, I’ve always appreciated well-constructed, easy-to-understand, and scientifically accurate visualizations, but admittedly those appreciations were often fleeting and superficial. I did not fully…

Key themes and discussions surrounding the theme “education and workforce development in displacement” — By: Elza Meiksane, Migration Summit Volunteer The theme of this year’s Migration Summit was Education and Workforce Development in Displacement and during the past weeks we have heard about the many challenges that refugees face in seeking opportunities to go forward and make a change in their life pathways.

Lecturers ensure technology, curriculum & instructional delivery of MIT’s classroom education keep up with dizzying pace of research — By Jane Halpern | MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is a crucible for technological innovation, but one of the most important aspects of the program’s leading global status has nothing to do with computers or circuits, artificial intelligence, or…

15 years and millions of users later, here’s what led to MIT’s launch of a programming language and online community with Scratch — By Mitchel Resnick | Medium This year is the 15th anniversary of the launch of the Scratch programming language and online community — and also the 20th anniversary of when my Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab started working on Scratch. Scratch has grown beyond what we…

MIT’s Council for the Uncertain Human Future convenes small circle groups to reckon with the climate crisis in solidarity — By Nicole Estvanik Taylor | MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences To truly engage the climate crisis, as so many at MIT are doing, can be daunting and draining. But it need not be lonely. Building collective insight and companionship for this undertaking is the aim of the…

Autonomous Cognitive Assistance is part of efforts in supporting critical Department of the Air Force AI education needs — By 1st Lt. Christine Del Aguila CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Department of the Air Force-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Accelerator recently held a prototype capstone AI course at the MIT open learning space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Autonomous Cognitive Assistance, or CogWorks, course is part of the AIA’s efforts…

Get started with free resources from MIT, MIT OpenCourseWare, and MITx — Earth Day is an annual celebration of nature and its biodiverse ecosystems — our home. It’s also a reminder that climate action needs to be made continually on big and small scales, not just on one day. …

Week 1 recap: key learnings and discussions — By Lily Zhang, Elza Meiksane, and Camila Massa The 2022 Migration Summit, running throughout the month of April, explores the theme of “Education and Workforce Development in Displacement,” seeking to build bridges between diverse refugee and migrant communities, educational institutions, and important stakeholders to collaboratively address key challenges and identify…