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Teaching with Technology

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Teaching with Technology
web.mit.edu/teachtech

A Guide For Faculty

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Help, Support, and Training

There are many options for help and support resources for faculty, students, and others engaged in teaching and learning activities at MIT. From personalized consulting services to help faculty integrate --from personalized help integrating technology into the curriculum (Educational Technology Consultants)classroom, to Library subject matter experts, to a broad spectrum of general technology help via MIT's Computing Help Deskgeneral computing and technology support.

  • Educational Technology Consultants
    If you don't know where to start, EdTech consultants can guide you step by step Guidance on using technology for teaching
    Phone: 617-253-0115, Email: et-consult@mit.edu
  • Libraries' Subject Experts
    Subject-matter reference experts on every conceivable subject For digital content and information resources
    Web request: libraries.mit.edu/ask-us/experts.html
  • Computing Help Desk
    Expert computing and technology help for the entire MIT community
    Phone: 617-253-1101, Email: computing-help@mit.edu, web.mit.edu/helpdesk/
  • MIT Audio Visual Services
    Service for classroom Classroom presentation and display equipment, installed or on-demand
    Phone: 617-253-2808, Web: mit.edu/avorders
  • Academic Media Production Services
    Video capture, production, streaming, webcasting, video conferencing
    Phone: 617-253-7603, Email: amps-info

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Class Management Tools

Communicating and collaborating with students; Putting your course on the web

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  • Course email lists
    Athena mailing lists can be populated with official Registrar's student lists to support class communications.
  • Instant Messaging
    MIT has its own instant messaging services that provide an alternative to traditional email.
  • Stellar discussion boards
    MIT's course management system, Stellar (see below) , Stellar provides discussion boards as one of its many features.
  • Blogs
    A weblog (blog) is a web page resembling an online diary or a journal that is updated on a regular basis. It resembles an online diary or a journal. You can request a blog to support your class.
  • Wikis
    Wikis have come to be standard popular workplace and educational tools. MIT offers a wiki space to groups via a centrally-managed wiki application.

Many MIT courses may have web presences in the form of managed class spaces in MIT's Stellar course management system, free-form course web sites served through Athena course web lockers, all the way to publishing an MIT course , or share content to the outside world via MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative.

  • Stellar
    MIT's course management system that provides a secure framework to support teaching and learning.  Features include ready-to-use website, class materials management, and homework management, easy communication with students, section setup and management, and access control.
  • Athena Course Lockers
    Course lockers are Athena shared directories that can be used to store class materials, datasets, or specialized applications which can then be accessed or run from for Athena workstations.  Course lockers can also be used to serve web pages under web.mit.edu.
  • OpenCourseware (OCW)
    OCW makes the un-restricted unrestricted course materials used in the teaching of virtually all of MIT subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user, anywhere in the world.  Courses are published after the semester they are taught.

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Multimedia, Software, and Digital Documents

Creating Teaching Materials

With a A wide range of services supporting the creation and conversion of are available for creating and converting course materials into digital content for web use, putting instructional materials on the web keeps getting easier.

  • Using licensed software
    Commercial, free/Open Source and some locally MIT developed software applications are licensed, installed, and available to support course work.
  • Making custom software
    Project consulting, development, coordination, deployment, and interpretation of global e-learning specifications and standards are available.
  • Video capture and production
    Lecture capture and advanced digital editing services are available at competitive prices.
  • Copyright advice
    Copyright guidelines for putting course materials up on the web.
  • E-reserves
    Support for providing electronic course readings for Stellar class web sites.

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 Learning Spaces

Technology-enabled places to teach and learn

At MIT you can find a variety of technology spaces specifically designed for various kinds of learning activities, from classroom-style computer labs (electronic classrooms) to the New Media Center for DIY multimedia production, several technology-enabled group collaboration spaces, to traditional computer clusters or labs allowing students access to a broad spectrum of academic softwareunique learning activities.

  • Electronic Classrooms
    Classrooms with individual student workstations for each student plus an instructor's workstation which can be projected to the class can be scheduled.
  • New Media Center
    26-139, provides the MIT community the tools necessary A cluster of Macintosh computers equipped with software to produce multimedia projects, such as digital video, photo scanning and ,  image manipulation, and web authoring in a "do-it-yourself" cluster of macintosh computerscontent.
  • Collaboration Collaborative spaces
    Several student computing clusters provide access to features such as wireless access, large wall-mounted LCD displays, and white boards /with projection systems with and  digital capture and modular soft furniturecapabilities.
  • Clusters
    Athena, Windows, and Mac computing labs are available across the campus.

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ACCORD

Teaching with Technology is a collaborative effort led by ACCORD, the Academic Computing Coordination Group. Sponsored by the Dean for Undergraduate Education's Office of Education Innovation and Technology (OEIT), Information Services and Technology (IS&T), and the Libraries, it brings together the many educational technology service providers from these group and other Departmentsdepartments, Centerscenters, and Labs on a regular basis to share information and labs to collaborate on projects and services that support teaching and learning at MIT. To find out more about ACCORD, see https://web.mit.edu/accord/ or email accord@mit.edu.

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