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Vol.XXXVI No. 3January-March 2024
Phi Beta Kappa at MIT: A Golden Opportunity to Recognize Undergraduate Excellence
...by notifying us of excellent students who should be on our radar. While GPA and transcripts are our initial data set, we love to hear when there are students who...
Vol. XXXIV No. 3January/February 2022
A Unifying Online Proposal for MIT’s Educational Mission Based on Open edX
...metadata (topic, subtopic, a one-sentence description.) and dynamic metadata (difficulty, time to complete, percentage of text reread, . . .). Together, these enable teachers to quickly find resources for replacing...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 2October 2025
The University Compact – My Take
...trustworthy source of knowledge based on evidence and empirical data. Student Learning MIT’s mission is to educate, not to shelter. Students cannot be treated as both mature thinkers whose insight...
Vol. XXXIV No. 2November/December 2021
Feedback on the First Draft of MIT’s “Five-year Strategic Action Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”
...Racism needing to be corrected on campus. Without data, it simply seems to assume that Structural Racism is pervasive throughout MIT. And it seems to assume that “the solution to...
Vol. XXXIII No. 5May/June 2021
MIT Plans for the Fall Semester
...be prepared to make changes based on the latest public health data and state and city requirements. In conclusion We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the students, faculty,...
Aron Bernstein: In Memoriam (Robert Redwine)
...number of experiments, especially at the MIT Bates Linear Accelerator in Middleton. As some of you know, these experiments would typically take data for several weeks, and during that time...
Vol. XXXVII No. 5May/June 2025
Looking Back
...to attack the problem: a well-differentiated set of introductory math and physics classes with a lot of data on what students at different entry points need, a math department already...
Vol. XXXV No. 2November/December 2022
MITx Update for MIT Faculty: Fall 2022
...an MIT-specific, nonprofit alternative to edX. Currently called MITx Online, it launched in beta in early fall 2021 with J-PAL’s Data, Economics, and Development Policy courses. One year later, MITx...
Vol. XXXVIII No. 3November/December 2025
Developing Students Who Make an Impact: Introducing the SoE Technical Leadership and Communication (TLC) Programs
...TLC programs and who stood out as leaders in your own classroom activities. Our data demonstrate that TLC students are better prepared for future academic and professional opportunities. As supported...
Vol. XXXIV No. 4March/April 2022
from the MIT 2021 Commuter Survey
Limited to respondents who answered mode of travel for all five days of the week. Data as of October 2021. Source: Office of the Provost/Institutional Research...