ACCORD's Teaching with Technology
web.mit.edu/teachtech
A Guide for Faculty
Help, Support, and Training
Technology Resources for Teaching and Learning (TRTL)
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There are many options resources for help and support 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
Guidance on all aspects of using technology for teaching
617-253-0115 | et-consult@mit.edu - Libraries Subject Selectors' Subject Experts
For digital content and information resources
libraries.mit.edu/ask-us/experts.html - Computing Help Desk
Expert computing and technology help for the entire MIT community
617-253-1101 | computing-help@mit.edu | web.mit.edu/helpdesk/ - MIT Audio Visual Services
Classroom presentation and display equipment, installed or on-demand
617-253-2808 | web.mit.edu/avorders - Academic Media Production Services
Video capture, production, streaming, webcasting, video conferencing
617-253-7603 | amps-info@mit.edu
Class Management Tools
Communicating
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and collaborating with students
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 instant messaging and Stellar discussion boards, or a class wiki.
- Course email lists
- IM/Jabber
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Discussion boards
- Putting Your Course on the Web
Many MIT courses 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 to the outside world via MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative.
- Stellar
- Athena Course Lockers
- OCW
- Creating Teaching Materials
With a slew of services supporting the creation and conversion of course materials into digital content for web use, putting instructional materials on the web keeps getting easier.
- Using licensed software
- Making custom software
- Videos
- Copyright clearance
- E-reserves
- Learning Spaces
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 software.
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. It provides ready-to-use 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) publishes unrestricted course materials to the world, sometime after the semester they are taught.
web.mit.edu/teachtech/courses
Multimedia, Software, and Digital Documents
Creating Teaching Materials
Many services are available for creating online course materials. 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 technology spaces designed for a variety of learning activities. The Institute's electronic classrooms provide individual student workstations 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 an effort led by ACCORD, the Academic Computing Coordination group. 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 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 web.mit.edu/accord/ or email accord@mit.edu.
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