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Two short courses one on best practices in teaching and learning and the other on MIT Mathlets, both intended for instructors.
The Online Teacher Ed website was initially developed to demonstrate the possibilities of using online education to provide capacity building in Pakistan’s Online Teacher Education program through the creation of high quality and scalable online and blended teacher education courses.
Two professional development courses are currently available:
- Best Practices
The Best Practices for Teaching and Learning course examines the important findings on the nature of student learning and teaching that promote student understanding and demonstrate how teachers can incorporate these findings in their courses to increase learning. This course is designed for participants with a variety of interests, backgrounds and career goals, with an emphasis on the teaching of science, technology, engineering and math fields. This course consists of 5 online sessions; each session will consist of video lectures (typically about 45 minutes), pre-assignment readings, forum discussions and weekly assignments. - Mathlets
This online training module provides educators with the expertise needed to integrate Mathlets and the pedagogy surrounding them in their own teaching. This self-paced online course should take participants approximately 4 hours to complete. This course examines what Mathlets are and how they can be used in lectures or demonstrations, as part of group exploration, and as the basis for homework assignments. Each presentation on the use of MIT Mathlets in the different contexts is followed by the instructor’s thoughts, experiences, and recommendations regarding the use of MIT Mathlets within that context.
The project was led by Brandon Muramatsu and Vijay Kumar with support from faculty and staff at MIT. The project was active in 2013.