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M.I.T. asked me to look for a teacher for the MITx prototype course.
ARCHIVE: "MITx prototype course opens for enrollment" ARCHIVE: "MIT launches online learning initiative".
Last December, MIT announced the creation of MITx, an ambitious project to recreate the MIT classroom experience online; in March, the MITx prototype course — "Circuits and Electronics," or 6.002x in MIT's course-numbering system — debuted.
This prototype course has led to the development of several modules and materials for incorporating power and energy into existing courses.
Among those using the prototype course was a Mongolian high school - and MIT says one of its 15 year olds was among the 340 students who achieved a perfect score.
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Moreover, we use group work extensively in class, and in the prototype courses we grouped according to background; that is, every group had a range of prior knowledge based on the pre-test.
For example, almost all of our students in the prototype courses had seen the material before at some level, either because they had not done well in physics in their freshman year (two-thirds of the students), or because they were freshmen with excellent physics backgrounds (one-third of the students).
It is of course just in prototype form right now, but one can easily imagine the tech being deployed by farmers in the near future, or perhaps in a more sinister way by three-letter agencies wanting to put a bee on the wall near important conversations.
With support from the D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship, Arun will complete a pilot clinical trial, set up a Rise Legs clinic in Bangalore, prototype a course on Rise Leg assembly and best practices, and through insight gained from a formal needs assessment, will explore potential to introduce Rise Legs on the African market.
It's still a prototype, of course, and was on display at CEATEC in Japan.
MIT has pointed out it would have taken 40 years to teach the number of students who successfully completed its prototype online course.
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