MIT Faculty Study Recommends Significant Undergraduate Education Changes
Posted on October 16, 2006 Comments (1)
A 2 year study by faculty provides recommendations for undergraduate education at MIT.
HigherEd article – When Knowledge Overtakes a Core:
Updating the traditional core of science subjects, giving students more choices and more hands-on science. The shift would end MIT’s long-standing practice of having all students take six common science courses — a change that institute officials say is necessary because the explosion of scientific knowledge has made it impossible to cover all basics in any introductory sequence.
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MIT’s reforms, if adopted, would represent the most significant overhaul of its curriculum in decades. The changes could be influential far beyond Cambridge, given the institute’s prominence in science and engineering education.
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MIT’s reforms, if adopted, would represent the most significant overhaul of its curriculum in decades. The changes could be influential far beyond Cambridge, given the institute’s prominence in science and engineering education.
I think making science and engineering more hands on is a good thing.
Related: Harvard Elevates Engineering Profile – Improving Engineering Education – Improving Undergraduate Science Education – Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton – Innovative Science and Engineering Higher Education
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