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Context This new project is a result of our internal brainstorming process; archived background material (MIT Certificate required). Dean Schmalensee's April 2006 announcement of this project . The projects committee presentation to senior staff, faculty, and student representatives in March 2006.
Three objectives:
General course that frames experience-based learning:a new course desgined to support existing project-based learning experiences. planned to be offered as a bookend course in 2006-7.
Emergent projects course:students and faculty co-create projects linked to work already taking place on campus or neaby. Our first offering of this course in Spring 07 will focus on sustainability.
Buildingconnections, knowledge, and capabilities: to make project-based learning more effective: an internal development effort, involving getting people together and creating an online repository for sharing ideas and learning and building a community.