Teaching with Technology

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ACCORD's Teaching with Technology

web.mit.edu/teachtech

A Guide For for Faculty

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Help, Support, and Training

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 technology into the curriculum (Educational Technology Consultants), to Library subject matter experts, to a broad spectrum of general technology help via MIT's Computing Help Desk--from personalized help integrating technology into the classroom, to general 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 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
  

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• Video capture, production, streaming, webcasting, video conferencing
  617-253-7603 | amps-info@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 instant messaging and Stellar discussion boards, or a class wiki.

• Course email lists
• IM/Jabber
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Discussion boards

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

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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

With a wide range 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.

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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 a variety of technology spaces specifically designed for various kinds a variety 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.

• Electronic Classrooms
• New Media Center
• Collaboration spaces
• Clusters

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. 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 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 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/^{Image Removed} or email accord@mit.edu.

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