Resources

Publications

Horizon Report 2008

The Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning and creative expression and produces the NMC’s annual Horizon Report. Phil Long, contributor.

STAR HPC - Elastic Computing in the Classroom

OEIT's STAR project harnesses high computing performance capabilities of Amazon's EC2 initiative. Written by Justin Riley.

Opening Up Learning: The Collectve Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content and Open Knowledge

M.S. Vijay Kumar and Toru Iiyoshi, co-editors. This anthology explores the potential of various trends such as free access to course materials, open source code, and collective intelligence to transform the educational landscape of the future.

Online Subject Evaluation: One Step Toward More Effective Teaching

MIT Faculty Newsletter, Jan-Feb 2008. Article by Dean Diane Henderson describing the current paper-based system with its limitations and providing a blueprint for developing an online system.