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The MIT Outreach Initiative seeks to disseminate innovative educational technology tools that can make a significant, sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they remember, and how fast they can shift from absorbing facts and concepts to creating new ideas and solutions themselves. With generous support from Microsoft Research, MIT iCampus Outreach seeks faculty and institutions looking to adopt new educational tools. The Outreach project will provide the software tools, supporting documentation, and guidance to assist higher education institutions to successfully implement these tools. To find out more information about the MIT iCampus Outreach projects please contact mailto:icampus@mit.edu Subject=MIT iCampus Outreach. Join a community of like minded faculty at institutions around the world who are seeking to transform the practice of higher education with educational technology About MIT iCampus .
MIT iCampus, sponsored by Microsoft Research, is aimed at achieving broad, substantial, and sustainable impact on higher education through information technology. iCampus incubates innovations for labs, classrooms, and campus communities at MIT and promotes their dissemination around the world who are seeking to transform the practice of higher education with educational technology . |
| Exploring and using MIT iCampus Projects |
¡ô Build a Relationship between MIT and your institution
¡ô Professional development workshops @ MIT (or at your institution if feasible) on MIT iCampus educational technology
¡ô Project Toolkits and material to reduce the cost of adoption
¡ô Web distribution portal to download the code & other resources
¡ô Open Source licenses
¡ô Access to the research projects Principal Investigator
¡ô Please contact MIT iCampus Outreach Director for more information. |
| iLabs |
iLabs is dedicated to the proposition that online laboratories - real laboratories accessed through the Internet - can enrich science and engineering education by greatly expanding the range of experiments that students are exposed to in the course of their education. Unlike conventional laboratories, iLabs can be shared across a university or across the world. The iLabs vision is to share expensive equipment and educational materials associated with lab experiments as broadly as possible within higher education and beyond. iLabs will provide access to selected MIT laboratory instrumentation for use by other students and faculty around the world; and is developing project an efficient software architecture to bring online and manage complex laboratory experiments. The iLabs toolkit is designed to:
¡ñ Scale to large numbers of users worldwide
¡ñ Allow multiple universities with diverse network infrastructures to share access
¡ñ Minimize development and management effort for users and providers of remote labs |
| About iLabs |
| Sharing iLabs: The iLabs team has created remote laboratories in MIT in microelectronics, chemical engineering, polymer crystallization, structural engineering, and signal processing. Developed as case studies, these experiments were used to understanding the complex requirements of operating remote lab experiments and scaling their use to large groups of students at MIT. MIT is freely sharing excess lab instrumentation capacity with other higher education institutions for the microelectronics lab. |
| iLabs Architecture: Three distinct modules connected by a Web service architecture. The Lab Server is operated by the lab's owner and deals with the actual operation of the lab hardware. The Lab Client runs on the end user's computer, and provides the interface to the operation of the lab. Finally, the Service Broker mediates exchanges between the Lab Client and the Lab Server and provides storage and administrative services that are generic and can be shared by multiple labs within a single university, or, multiple Lab Server among universities. |
Exploring and using iLabs
Visit MIT iCampus Outreach to:
Explore curriculum materials and demonstration use of working remote through MIT OpenCourseWare
Integrate the MIT microelectronics lab into your class
Review the iLab architecture & software
Download the iLab toolkit source code and documentation
Create and share your iLabs
Join the iLab community to register for iLabs faculty workshops, and become an MIT iCampus Affiliate |
Robot World
 Robot World is a suite of software tools and curriculum materials that systematize on-line support for engineering design project courses. Project-based learning courses pose teaching and logistic challenges because they require students to design new products and operate with a high degree of autonomy. Robot World's project-based pedagogy is a synergy of
¡ñ Pen-based robot mechanism design tools using Tablet PC technology
¡ñ Design-based curriculum with embedded engineering fundamentals and visualizations of complex machines
¡ñ Course management and Web collaboration tools |
About Robot World
Robot World includes curriculum for design fundamentals, simulation tools, on-line collaboration environments, and peer-review assessment tools. These elements help students create and evaluate products of the design experience, and they free faculty to spend more one-on-one time working with students on design projects. Project-based engineering design¡¯s modular components make this approach easy to adopt in part, for integration with your existing curriculum, or in entirety, to create courses in engineering fundamentals and design. Examples of how these tools are used, along with the couese content are available from MIT OpenCourseWare (see Course 2.000 and 2.007) |
Exploring and using Project-based Design
Visit http://icampus.mit.edu/robotworld or contact MIT iCampus to
Download tools for machine design, course management and collaboration
Learn about the project based design learning philosophy and assessment results
Get "How and Why Machines Work" and "Design and Manufacturing" curriculum material via MIT OpenCourseWare
Join the PB engineering design community to register for faculty workshops, and become an MIT iCampus Affiliat |
iMOAT£º
iMOAT, the iCampus MIT Online Assessment Tool, is a service for Web-based administration and grading of writing examinations. It has been used for assessing writing skills of MIT entering students since 1998 and refined by writing instruction experts at five major universities. The iMOAT Web service
¡ñ incorporates reliable and valid writing situations that give students time to think, write, and revise
¡ñ transforms assessment into learning by providing detailed individual feedback
¡ñ integrates preparatory readings of any length
¡ñ gives universities and complete control over the content, schedule, and grading of exams
¡ñ significantly reduces assessment costs
¡ñ is applicable for assessing written work in any field |
About iMOAT
iMOAT facilitates best practices in writing assessment. It lets students complete assignments or take exams anywhere in the world. It permits universities to define key elements of assessment instruments and academic assignments, including number and relative weights of test elements, online readings, time allotted, and specific practices for holistic scoring. It incorporates online scoring of essays and real-time quality control. Other applications include K-12 education, portfolios in writing and other subjects, and distance learning. |
Exploring and using iMOAT
iMOAT is in use at major pubic and private universities.
Visit http://icampus.mit.edu/imoat or contact MIT iCampus to
¡ô Schedule a demo
¡ô Contact iMOAT users at other universities
¡ô Setup a test account
¡ô Arrange a one-semester free trial for your school
¡ô Join the consortium of universities using iMOAT
¡ô Collaborate in administering and evaluating online essay examinations
¡ô Download and operate Imoat software or benefit from economies of scale in infrastructure and administration by joining the Imoat consortium |
Magic Paper
Magic paper enables a novel form of interaction with software, making it possible to describe things by sketching, gesturing, and talking about them in a way that feels completely natural, yet have a computer understand the messy freehand sketches, casual gestures, and fragmentary utterances that are part and parcel of such interaction. Once the sketch is understood, the information it contains can be handed off to other applications for simulation, design checking, design completion, or refinement. Magic paper:
¡ñ has been implemented in a variety of domains, including simple 2-D mechanical devices and UML software diagrams
¡ñ deals with the noise inherent in hand-drawn sketches
¡ñ uses a variety of knowledge sources to resolve ambiguity
¡ñ provides modeless interaction for both sketching and editing
¡ñ allows ideas to be evaluated early in the design cycle |
About Magic Paper
Magic Paper will let computer tools capture and understand ideas that are today captured in pencil on scraps of paper. This capability can introduce design capture into the earliest stages of the design process and radically shorten the design cycle. MIT's Design Rationale Group is working to imbue a wide variety of surfaces with magic paper capabilities, ranging from active whiteboards, to tablet computers, to desktops in classrooms and benches in laboratories. This vision of computing spans the range from tablet computer notebooks full of Magic Paper to a new concept of desktop computing: your (physical) desktop should compute.
Exploring and using Magic Paper
Visit http://icampus.mit.edu/magicpaperl or contact MIT iCampus to
¡ô View videos of Magic Paper in use
¡ô Download prototype software for sketching 2-D mechanical devices derived from The Magic Paper research
¡ô Read or download papers describing the multiple facets of ongoing work on the project, including speech and gesture understanding, and multi-modal integration.
¡ô Learn about the goal of natural interaction |
TEAL£º
Technology-enabled active learning is a teaching format that merges lectures, simulations, and hands-on desktop experiments to create a rich collaborative learning experience. By the fall of 2005, TEAL will be used for almost all MIT introductory physics instruction. TEAL classes feature:
¡ñ Collaborative learning-students working during class in small groups with shared laptop computers
¡ñ Desktop experiments with data acquisition links to laptops
¡ñ Media-rich visualizations and simulations delivered via laptops and the Internet
¡ñ Personal response systems that stimulate interaction between students and lecturers |
About TEAL
MIT TEAL builds on work in "Studio Physics" pioneered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and elaborated over the past decade. TEAL classes include short lecture segments interspersed with collaborative exercises in small groups with desktop experiments and laptop computers. TEAL also incorporates a suite of professional quality two- and three-dimensional visualizations in electromagnetism. These visualizations are continually expanded and upgraded and are freely available for non-profit educational use. The MIT TEAL Project has included careful assessment and evaluation since its inception. Standard assessment measures have shown that learning gains in TEAL physics are twice those in the traditional lecture/recitation format across the entire range of student backgrounds. |
Exploring and using TEAL
Visit http://icampus.mit.edu/teal or contact MIT iCampus to
¡ô Learn about the TEAL philosophy and assessment results
¡ô Learn about teaching physics in studio format, and get help and advice for doing this at your
university
¡ô Get TEAL physics curriculum material via MIT OpenCourseWare
¡ô Get complete text materials, including on-line course notes with integrated animations
¡ô Download physics visualization and simulation material |
XTutor£º
xTutor Release 1 is  a complete set of lectures, captured as audio recordings and transcripts, problem sets, interactive tutoring agents and assignment tracking supporting an introduction to computer science ( Structure and Interpretation of Computer Program, 6.001 at MIT), and Artificial Intelligence £¨course 6.034)
Developed by the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, xTutor has been used by several thousand students. On-going assessment demonstrates student learning and performance using xTutor is better than live lecture presentation for both concepts and detailed skill learning.
xTutor Release 2, available in the summer of 2005, extends this work to create a user-extensible toolkit. It is designed to be a turn-key system that can be easily adapted to many courses with minimal administrative overhead. xTutor is based on XML technologies for configuration and content delivery, and it is backed by a database for logging and data mining. |
About xTutor£º
Release 1 ¨C The initial  release of xTutor makes available the complete content of two MIT courses, Structure and Interpretation of COMPUTER Programming and Artificial Intelligence. Release 2¡ªxtutor R2 will contain the extensible toolkit for easy customization of course xTutor structure and functionality. xTutor course content, collection of XML documents called xDocs, written using tags, defines common problem formats, e.g., fill-in or multiple choice. The tag language is allows users to define new tags and namespaces and provide handlers that determine processing rules when generating XHTML and checking user submissions. A growing library of tags, handlers, and client-side applets that support a variety of student interactions. |
Exploring and using xTutor
¡ô Try out xTutor Release 1 to
View lecture slides with audio recordings and transcript
Do interactive homework assignments and on-line exercise
¡ô Use the xTutor Release 1in lectures and exercises for your class today
¡ô Join online xTutor user communities & register for xTutor faculty workshops, receive updates on release developments, and access to early code version as they become available. |
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