[ed-tech] [Fwd: Crosstalk, Wednesday, 4/14 - Reminder]

[Jean Foster]

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Subject: Crosstalk, Wednesday, 4/14 - Reminder
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:25:20 -0400

Just a reminder that the next CrossTalk seminar, presented by Ms. Lori
Breslow, Director of the Teaching and Learning Lab, is next Wednesday,
April 14th, at 1:00 pm in 4-237.

Lori and her colleagues in the Teaching and Learning Lab have been
reviewing the educational technology initiatives underway at MIT for the
past several years. On April 14th, at 1:00 pm in 4-237, she will share
with us her current findings in a presentation titled:Lessons Learned: 
Findings from the Assessments of New Initiatives in Educational
Technology at MIT (2000-2003). 
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Abstract: In 1999, MIT received a generous grant from the Microsoft
Corporation that allowed it to embark on a wide scale series of
innovations in educational technology.   iCampus, the name given the
MIT-Microsoft alliance, has seen the development of more than 23
projects that are aimed at improving teaching and learning in
undergraduate education.

The Teaching and Learning Laboratory was asked to manage the assessment
of these initiatives.  In this work, we have collaborated with MIT
faculty and staff, graduate and undergraduate students, education
graduate students from other universities in the Boston area, and
assessment and evaluation consultants.  Three years later, as we have
reviewed our findings from these individual projects, we have identified
a number of common threads among them.  These commonalities have allowed
us to draw several overarching conclusions about the use and effects of
educational technology:  what works, what doesn't, and how educational
technologies influence the learning environments in which they are
embedded. 


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Jean Foster
MIT Academic Computing
617.253.3909, jfoster at mit.edu, N42-040F