Category Archives: 2011

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11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room 5-231 Discuss modularity experiments Discuss Academic Council presentation

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room 5-231 Online Education Recently Stanford announced new educational initiatives from the CS department and the School of Engineering. (See Links below) http://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/2917-more-free- online-courses.html http://see.stanford.edu/ Discussion: What are the implications for MIT strategy? Modularity Experiments … Continue reading →

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Rm. 33-206 Agenda Feedback from student focus groups. Feedback from council and department presentations. Discussion of proposals: ESD and Chemistry (attached), and ME and EECS if we received them before the meeting.- These are experiments: … Continue reading →

1:00 – 2:30 pm Rm. 5-231 Agenda Discussion of draft proposals from EECS, ESD, Chemistry and ME – Dan/Hal (Proposal sent by Dan Hastings to MITCET)With the goal of selecting MITCET supported experiments on modularization leading to greater student/faculty flexibility … Continue reading →

11:00 – 12:30 pm Rm. 5-231 Agenda Part I. Updates and discussion on interest and proposals for MITCET experiments on modularization leading to greater student/faculty flexibility while enhancing overall student learning. EECS: Dan, (Hal) ESD: Dan Sloan (Report on Sloan … Continue reading →

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room 5-231 Discuss Carnegie Mellon visit Discuss modularity experiments

Defining a transformative experiment for the next Academic Year (Process and Considerations) based on Provost feedback on interim report. (Key Points attached). Specific Meeting Goals: Identify a small set of BIG IDEAS to pursue that would lead to an irreversible … Continue reading →