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by MIT World
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MIT World — A Primary Source of Great Ideas on the Web Which ideas and innovations can change the world? MIT World™ answers that question by publishing key presentations by the MIT faculty and guest speakers who are shaping the future. These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere. More a publication of thought leadership, and less a news site, MIT World aims to capture the pulse and excitement of the range of ideas discussed at MIT every day and share them with the world. A growing archive offers insights on topics ranging from architecture to innovation to technology and sustainability. Cumulatively, these presentations by world-class thinkers and doers map great ideas in the making.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoBeyond the Bench: Preparing MIT Students for the Challenges of Global Leadership | Education | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoEducation Across Borders: The India Perspective | Education | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoRelearning Learning--Applying the Long Tail to Learning | Education | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoSowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society | Education | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoOne Laptop per Child: Revolutionizing How the World's Children Engage in Learning | Education | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoGeeks and Chiefs: Engineering Education at MIT | Education | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoBlended Learning Revisited | Even when children are high achievers and facile with new technology, many seem gradually to lose their sense of wonder and curiosity, notes John Seely Brown. Traditional educational methods may be smothering their innate drive to explore the world. Brown | 4/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoYes We Must: Achieve Diversity through Leadership | Two students deliver heartfelt appeals for courage and integrity at the annual Martin Luther King Day breakfast. In the 1940s, Matt Gethers recounts, his grandfather was forced to flee South Carolina after defending his brother against white racists in a | 7/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoGiving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference | The world’s most intractable problems might be cracked if more of our “brightest minds” could be tempted to work on them, asserts Bill Gates. Too many graduates of top universities like MIT find it infinitely more satisfying to deal in derivatives, | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoOpen Education for an Open World | In Charles M. Vest’s expansive vision, scientists and engineers around the world are creating a “meta university” as they increasingly share ideas and build on common knowledge. Technology enables this integration of minds, leading us toward “an e | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoEducation Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools | The daily news is full of stories about failing schools, as well as those undergoing miraculous rescues. But there are also schools that have devised innovative and constructive practices that are worth studying and emulating, according to Milton Chen of | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoHumanities in the Digital Age | Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance. Three scholars whose work touches a variety of disciplines and with wide knowledge of the worlds of academia and publi | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe Medium Doesn’t Matter | In an era of packaged toys and online games, have our children lost the knack of creative play? While American kids may never again prefer sticks and other found objects to the manufactured experience, Laura Seargeant Richardson of frog design believes ch | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoApplied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education | n the first of four panels celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program at MIT, panelists reflect on the wide range of projects and media studies offspring that have emerged from this innovative program. Major CMS theme | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoParticipatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society | an Condry introduces five graduates of the Comparative Media Studies Program—Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Jing Wang, Orit Kuritsky, Ana Domb —in this final panel, who share their views and experiences about the international/global dimension of | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoCreativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age | In a panel moderated by James Paradis, five former Comparative Media Studies (CMS) students discuss their personal experiences within the CMS program and the impact it has had on their understanding, interpretation, and implementation of creativity in the | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoInternational Media Flows: Global Media and Culture | Even back in the early days of Comparative Media Studies (CMS), when Henry Jenkins and colleagues met in the basement of the Media Lab, there was much discussion of how new media might shape learning and spur novel forms of expression and community engage | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
