Technology Resources for Teaching and Learning (TRTL)

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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.

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.

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.

Multimedia, Software, and Digital Documents

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.

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.