Festival of Learning 2017

The event is in the past.

The festival was a two-day celebration of learning featuring national thought-leaders, Satya Nitta from IBM Watson and Andrew Sutherland of Quizlet.com. The faculty lightning round highlighted five MIT instructional innovators. A Learning Expo provided hands on activites to the MIT community, and a student hackathon engendered four new digital initiatives. Read more about the Festival in this MIT news article. #MITFOL17

Wednesday, Feb 1

• Plenary
  • Introductory remarks, Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart.
  • Keynote address by Satya Nitta of IBM Watson Education: "Watson and the Future of Learning Science and Technology". 
  • "Pursuing the Matrix: Applying IBM's Watson to Education": neurobiology PhD student Sarah Bricault's reflections on Nitta's talk.
• Teaching @ MIT Lightning Round with MIT faculty videos:
  • Lorna Gibson, Course 3
  • Michael Cuthbert, Course 21M
  • Dennis Freeman, Course 6
  • Peter Dourmashkin, Course 8
  • Ely Sachs, Course 2
• Learning Expo highlighting educational initiatives and projects throughout MIT. 
• Keynote address by Andrew Sutherland of Quizlet.com: "Empowering Students and Teachers".
• Student reflection on Sutherland's talk by MIT architecture major Effie Jia MIT '20.

Thursday, Feb 2

• MICROTEACHING: practice teaching sessions with the Teaching & Learning Lab
• Hackathon Conclusion: presentations, judging, awards.
  • Team #1 – Snipmap - Audience Choice winner
  • Team #2 – Retainer - Implementation & Viability Award
  • Team #3 – Jason & Enrico - Impact Award
  • Team #4 – Alex - Participation Certificate

This event was for members of the MIT community. Registration requests from others were evaluated on a case-by-case basis, as space permitted. Please email festival-learning-2017@mit.edu with questions.

Sponsored by MIT's Office of Digital Learning (ODL) and: