Strategic Education Initiatives (SEI) in the MIT Office of Digital Learning supports MIT’s partnerships with other universities, foundations and trusts, non-governmental organizations, and national governments to experiment with and implement digital learning. Some SEI projects span across nations and hundreds of schools, helping to advance the field of digital learning for practitioners, researchers, and learners at MIT and around the world.
SEI also partners with faculty to create new digital tools for use in MITx courses in edX and in residential teaching. SEI’s work in other settings can lead to new pedagogy and curriculum design at MIT. Through these initiatives, MIT is furthering its mission to advance learning worldwide.
SEI offers a variety of solutions and products
- Solutions that incorporate small private online classes (SPOCs*), blended learning experiences for configuring and developing new programs and institutions, as well as capacity building
- Projects to strengthen the teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, and mathematical concepts at MIT and beyond through visualization tools and concept-based navigation of educational resources
- Support for developing modular online courses
- Design and development of new curricular programs
- Prototype courses for online teacher education programs
- K-12 teacher professional development and MITx/edX professional development for education technologists
- Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce development
- Building entrepreneurial capacity in nations through SPOCs and blended learning programs
- Promoting STEM literacy and a love of learning through SEI’s K12 Videos program
* SPOCs draw upon the specific features of MOOCs such as short videos, interactive automatic tutors and embedded assessments, as well as forums for deeper, engaging, and flexible learning experiences.
