FAQs: Reshaping MIT’s programs in online and digital education
This set of FAQs accompanies the Feb. 2, 2016, announcement of MIT’s plans to consolidate and expand the Institute’s programs in online and digital education. What is the news? MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced today a series of new Institute-wide initiatives aimed at consolidating and significantly expanding the Institute’s programs in online and digital education — which span from pre-kindergarten through graduate and professional education. What are these initiatives? MIT announced several Institute-wide initiatives aimed at coordinating and expanding the Institute’s programs in residential and digital education, at all levels of teaching and learning. At the core, the Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili, or “mightily”) will bring focused, rigorous quantitative and qualitative research to bear on the process of learning. The investigative work of MITili will shape the directions of MIT’s efforts in three key areas: pK-12, higher education, and professional continuing education. The pK-12 Action Group will coordinate the more than 100 existing...