Report on the future of MIT education
August 6th, 2014
This week, MIT President Rafael Reif released the final report of the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, which "marks the beginning of an exciting new period of educational experimentation at MIT,” he wrote in a letter to the community.
Among other things, the report addresses MIT’s role in MOOCs, or massive open online courses, and suggests that MIT consider offering different levels of certification for students enrolled in classes through MITx and edX. It also recommends increasing the Institute’s undergraduate population or allowing students to complete their degrees in fewer than four years. The Task Force has been chaired by two faculty members: Karen Willcox, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and Sanjay Sarma, a professor of engineering who is also MIT’s director of digital learning.