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How does MIT approach innovation in education technology? The school has a set of groups that you should know about. 
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Since MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten group released Scratch in 2007, kids ages 8 to 13 have built more than 2.2 million animations, games, music, videos and stories using the kid-friendly programming language.
Scratch allows kids to snap together graphical blocks of instructions, like Lego bricks, to control sprites—the movable objects that perform actions. Sprites can dance, sing, run and talk.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world's top universities, has revealed its first fully automated, accredited course which can be studied without charge.
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MIT Launches Online Learning Initiative
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.
Tom George's comment,
January 2, 2012 10:07 AM
Wow if this is true this is huge for education. Thanks for sharing this today.
Gust MEES's comment,
January 2, 2012 10:26 AM
@http://www.scoop.it/u/internet-billboards,
I agree completely with You! That is a revolution, an innovation... Something I am advocating since more than 40 years, FREE Education, I am more than HAPPY to see this starting, WOW :) Here is the link from MIT-Web site, will publish it also now as it looks really unbelievable http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/mitx-education-initiative-1219.html Have a nice day and best regards, Gust |
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Online edX courses will open both universities’ classrooms to the world while enhancing on-campus learning.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=MIT
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MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.
The first MITx course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), will be launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012.
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“MIT has long believed that anyone in the world with the motivation and ability to engage MIT coursework should have the opportunity to attain the best MIT-based educational experience that Internet technology enables. OpenCourseWare’s great success signals high demand for MIT’s course content and propels us to advance beyond making content available. MIT now aspires to develop new approaches to online teaching.” said MIT President Susan Hockfield Via Peter John Baskerville
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'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called “MITx.” MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
GM: ===> This is nearly unbelievable and THAT Innovation in Education! <=== Congratulations MIT for this step to the future of Education!
Olivier's comment,
January 11, 2012 5:08 AM
Great to see all these training material (pdf) published by the MIT #open-source initiative. It's an important step in regard with the trainee (self-learning) and for the trainer (sharing the learning material). It's not collaborative for the moment, but it's an important first step :)
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