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Teaching with Technology

Teaching with Technology
web.mit.edu/teachtech

A Guide For Faculty

Help, Support, and Training

There are many resources for faculty, students, and others engaged in teaching and learning activities at MIT--from personalized help integrating technology into the classroom, to general computing and technology support.

  • Educational Technology Consultants
    Guidance on 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: mit.edu/avorders
  • Academic Media Production Services
    Video capture, production, streaming, webcasting, video conferencing
    Phone: 617-253-7603, Email: amps-info

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
    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.

  • Stellar
    MIT's course management system provides a secure framework to support teaching and learning.  Features include ready-to-use website, class materials and homework management, easy communication with students, section setup and management, and access control.
  • Athena Course Lockers
    Course lockers are Athena shared directories that can be used to store class materials, datasets, or specialized applications for Athena workstations.  Course lockers can also be used to serve web pages under web.mit.edu.
  • OpenCourseware (OCW)
    OCW makes the unrestricted course materials available on the Web, free of charge, to any user, anywhere in the world.  Courses are published after the semester they are taught.

Multimedia, Software, and Digital Documents

Creating Teaching Materials

A wide range of services are available for creating and converting 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.

 Learning Spaces

Technology-enabled places to teach and learn

At MIT you can find a variety of technology spaces designed for unique learning activities.

  • Electronic Classrooms
    Classrooms with individual student workstations plus an instructor's workstation which can be projected to the class.
  • New Media Center
    A cluster of Macintosh computers equipped with software to produce multimedia projects, such as digital video, photo scanning,  image manipulation, and web content.
  • Collaborative spaces
    Several student computing clusters provide wireless access, large wall-mounted LCD displays, and white boards with projection and  digital capture capabilities.
  • Clusters
    Athena, Windows, and Mac computing labs are available across the campus.

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 to collaborate on projects and services that support teaching and learning at MIT. To find out more about ACCORD, see https://web-mit-edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/accord/ or email accord@mit.edu.

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