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 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.
- Educational Technology Consultants
If you don't know where to start, EdTech consultants can guide you step by step
Phone: 617-253-0115, Email: et-consult@mit.edu - Libraries' Subject Experts
Subject-matter reference experts on every conceivable subject
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 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
Students and faculty today have a rich set of choices for communicating with each other. From tried and true class email lists to personal blogs, web-based course discussion boards, or a class wiki.
- Course email lists
- Instant Messaging
- Stellar discussion boards
- Blogs
- Wikis
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 (need to check with Vijay, Jerry whether okay to exclude)
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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.
- Using licensed software
- Making custom software
- Video capture and production
- Copyright clearance
- E-reserves
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 software.
- Electronic Classrooms
- New Media Center
- Collaboration spaces
- Clusters
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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 Departments, Centers, and Labs on a regular basis to share information and 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.