MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

E E C S

MIT Council on Educational Technology: A Progress Report

Richard Larson
EECS, MIT, and Director, CAES, MIT

Monday, March 17, 1997
4:00 PM
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium

Abstract

The Council on Educational Technology was charged by the President to consider the potential benefits that MIT's educational mission might derive over the next decade from effective application of emerging computer and telecommunication technologies, to explore alternative strategies for achieving the most important of these benefits, to describe a vision for the future, and to make a concise, concrete set of recommendations for action.

We were asked to take a comprehensive view, encompassing both on-campus and distance learning activities, the educational implications of global networking, the role of shared institutional information-technology resources (in particular, Athena), and the roles of departmental and individual resources (including student-owned machines). We were asked to explore proven, promising, and speculative approaches to technologically supported education, and to consider possible alliances with other organizations.

The report now exists in draft form. I present its main recommendations and describe via examples some of the related activities already on-going around campus (and off campus, too). Now is the time for MIT faculty members to offer their suggestions as the report evolves into a final form.

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