By Sam Shames, MIT The Tech
Imagine if as a part of a requirement for the class, at the end our project our group compiled all of our work into a centralized website where someone could find all the information and tools necessary to complete our project. The website could contain videos, presentations, demos, papers, lab modules, and any other work we did on the project. The challenge would be determining how best to organize this information so it serves the needs of the person interested in learning about our work. In other words, our challenge would be to create a platform for digital learning. Imagine the ideas that would emerge if students in project-based classes all across the institute developed their own platforms. Not only will this result in a wide range of learning platforms, but encouraging students to think about how best to teach the concepts they learn for a project will cement the ideas they have learned and improve their communication skills. Furthermore, by seeing how helpful the different platforms are for students, the best practices can be identified and incorporated into the MITx platform. Experimenting with student created learning platforms will also allow MIT to better understand the ways in which its students use digital content.
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