Web 2.0 creates a culture for both creating and consuming knowledge, both of which promote learning. Web 2.0 literacy, in one respect, is about learning to use collaborative tools to solve complex problems; in another, it is about managing and interpreting a broader, authentic, set of student work.
The M.F.A. is considered a terminal degree comparable to a Ph.D. in more theoretical fields, she said. The program is more intensive, requiring three years to complete and culminating with a master's thesis project in the third year.
Nantucket Sound, where plans to build a 130-turbine wind farm have sparked heated resistance, has become ground zero for a larger debate about offshore renewable energies. Whether the wind farm -- the first of its kind in the nation -- is a catalyst for similar projects or an impediment could be settled if the president takes sides.
Learning environments, Global communities, Second Life, Wonderland, Google Earth, and more.
Attendees will be able to develop a support strategy for their campus to help individual faculty members engage with Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning. Attendees will better understand the pedagogical value of using Web 2.0 tools. From a general overview of Web 2.0 and what it means for higher education to taking a trip through Second Life, attendees will finish the day with greater familiarity with, and, we hope, less reluctance to use, Web 2.0 pedagogical opportunities.
Approximately 15% of MIT undergraduates will spend time studying or researching in another country. Following DUE's strategic theme to foster global leadership through foreign travel, this percentage is predicted to grow. Using the capabilities of Second Life, OEIT's VW expert Evan Leek has created - within MIT's existing Second Life SIM - a gathering space for globally distributed students.
Evan Leek, a graduate media arts major and a project coordinator on Hub2, is also a teacher's assistant for Gordon's course, the group that was given the task of redesigning Government Center on Second Life. Leek said the goal of the project is to give residents the sense that they can change and affect their community.
