ACCORD's Teaching with Technology
Teaching with Technology
web.mit.edu/teachtech
A Guide For for Faculty
Help, Support, and Training
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- Educational Technology Consultants
Guidance on all aspects of using technology for teaching
Phone: 617-253-0115 , Email: | et-consult@mit.edu - Libraries' Subject Experts
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
Classroom presentation and display equipment, installed or on-demand
Phone: 617-253-2808 , Web: | web.mit.edu/avorders - Academic Media Production Services
Video capture, production, streaming, webcasting, video conferencing
Phone: 617-253-7603 , Email: | amps-infoinfo@mit.edu
Class Management Tools
Communicating and collaborating with students; Putting your course on the web
Students and faculty today have a rich set of choices for communicating with each other and their students. From tried and true class email lists to personal blogs, web-based course discussion boards, or a class wiki.
- 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) 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. You can request a blog to support your class. - Wikis
Wikis have come popular workplace and educational tools. MIT offers a wiki space to groups via a centrally-managed wiki application.
MIT courses may have class spaces in MIT's Stellar course management system, free-form course web sites served through Athena, or share content to the world via MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative.
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instant messaging and Stellar discussion boards, all the way to experimenting with class blogs and wikis.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/communicating
Putting your course on the web
Stellar is MIT's course management system
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. It provides ready-to-use
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customizable web sites for distributing course materials to students and instructors in the class, and many other tools to support teaching and learning in and out of the classroom. OpenCourseWare (OCW) makes the unrestricted course materials available
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to any user, anywhere in the world
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, free of charge. OCW courses are published after the semester they are taught.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/courses
Multimedia, Software, and Digital Documents
Creating Teaching Materials
A wide range of Many services are available for creating and converting online course materials for web use.
- Using licensed software
Commercial, free/Open Source and some 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.
. These range from licensed and MIT-developed software to custom software development, video capture and production, advice on copyright and intellectual property concerns, and E-reserves support for providing readings through Stellar class web sites.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/materials
Learning Spaces
Technology-enabled places to teach and learn
At MIT you can find a variety of technology spaces designed for unique a variety of learning activities.
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The Institute's electronic classrooms provide individual student workstations
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at each seat along with projection for the instructor. In the NewMediaCenter students can find multimedia software and digital video editing applications. Collaborative spaces and Athena clusters allow both for teams working with large shared displays and traditional computer labs with engineering applications for students to use individually.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/spaces
ACCORD
Teaching with Technology is a collaborative an effort led by ACCORD, the Academic Computing Coordination Groupgroup. Sponsored Jointly 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 areas and other departments, centers, 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.