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Earlier today, Harvard and MIT announced edX, an open-source technology platform designed to deliver online courses. Now, anyone from around the world with an Internet connection can have access to, what MIT President Susan Hockfield called, "one of the best kept secrets of Cambridge and the entire higher education community" - the "richness of collaborations" between Harvard and MIT.

Pardon the hyperbole, but this may be one of the biggest partnerships in education since chalk met the chalkboard. MIT has officially joined forces with Khan Academy to launch a new set of educational videos. In this new partnership, MIT students will be making videos, not the professors. It's a truly inspiring time in education when you see a school ask its own students to become the teachers. It's like the ultimate flipped classroom. It's a flipped school. "Our students have responded with all the energy and enthusiasm we knew they would. We worked with them to design the program, and the results are fantastic." -Ian A. Waitz, Dean of the School of Engineering and the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

The MIT Media Lab is broken down into 26 different research groups. From "Macro Connections" to "Camera Culture," each team is focused on an innovative end goal. Throughout this past year, one group, "Viral Spaces," has focused on proximal networking, hoping to facilitate discourse between real people in real places. From Junkyard Jumbotron's large digital displays to Peddl's brand-new balanced marketplace, here's a look at 11 of the projects aimed at changing the way we communicate.

MIT and Harvard, two neighboring universities which often compete for top students, are now collaborating on free online courseware technology. Starting next fall, both schools will offer free courses using a platform based on MIT's previously announced MITx technology.  MITx enables the creation of online classes that knit together video segments, embedded quizzes, interactive feedback, online labs and student-ranked Q&A.

Après avoir suscité une onde de choc sans pareil en mettant en ligne l'intégralité de ses cours et supports de cours au travers de l'initiative OpenCourseWare, le Massachusetts institute of technology s'associe cette fois-ci avec Harvard pour lancer un nouveau projet dans la même veine. Le programme « edX » de publication en ligne de contenus multimédia vient en effet d'être annoncé le 2 mai 2012 par les partenaires, qui invitent les universités du monde entier à se joindre à eux ou à réutiliser la plate-forme technique mise à disposition...

I have always been intrigued by the promise of online education. It is easy to see how geographic and economic boundaries can be overcome through technology. Educational institutions can compete for students well beyond their traditional local boundaries, growing nationally and internationally while bringing down their per-seat costs. Schools no longer need expensive classrooms and dormitories to grow. Small, innovative institutions can grow globally and as rapidly as they dare to dream. High-quality teaching faculty can be recruited from anywhere on the planet -- to teach thousands of students simultaneously. Students can study anytime and attend classes from anywhere. In addition, growth of free, high-quality education sites such as Khan Academy and open-source courses such as Opencourseware at MIT, along with global satellite and broadband communications networks, have removed economic, social, and geographic barriers to high-quality education.

Comprendre notre intelligence émotionnelle, c'est ce à quoi s'attache Rosalind Picard directrice du Groupe de recherche sur l'informatique affective au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) et cofondatrice d'Affectiva, une start-up spécialisée dans les technologies de mesure de l'émotion. Et ce n'est pas si simple, comme en a rendu compte Sally Adee pour le NewScientist…

"Higher education is rapidly changing--you don't have to even be paying much attention to see that. Universities have started streaming lectures en masse, schools like Harvard and MIT are teaming up to create content tailored for the web, startups like UniversityNow are creating reasonably priced online universities, and startups like Udacity offer online-only classes from renowned professors. None of this existed 10 years ago, and the field isn't done changing yet. A new report from Pew Internet looks at what higher education will look like in 2020, based on survey responses from over 1,000 "Internet experts, researchers, observers and users.""

Le MIT a mis au point une plateforme collaborative pour assister les entreprises et les laboratoires dans le développement d'applications en imagerie biomédicale. Les contributeurs seraient des scientifiques travaillant depuis des années dans le domaine.

"A complete list of free online courses offered by Stanford, Coursera, MIT and Harvard led edX (MITx + Harvardx + BerkeleyX), and Udacity"

"A dash of algebra on wireless networks promises to boost bandwidth tenfold, without new infrastructure."

The New Market Places - Peer to Peer Collaborative Consumption March 10, 2011 at 8:55am Collaborative consumption market places are everywhere: media, car rental, lodging, staffing, textbooks, apparel, custom graphic design and even finance. Netflix shares DVDs among a large subscriber base. ZipCar and GetAround make car sharing easy. Travelers rent a local's apartment for a few days through HomeAway and 9Flats. College students rent textbooks from Chegg. Moms exchange children's clothing on ThredUp. Graphic designers create beautiful paper products and fulfill orders through Minted. Short term borrowers find loans from a community of individual lenders on Zopa and LendingClub.

o you're standing around the water cooler on Monday morning, and Joe from accounting asks what you got up to over the weekend. "Oh, nothing much," you reply. "I learned how to pick a lock, how to make ricotta from scratch, and how to make a camp stove out of two soda cans, and that was just Saturday." Such an odd emporium of learning actually exists in Oakland, California. A pair of MIT-schooled brothers, Gil and J.D. Zamfirescu, have assembled a two day nerdapalooza they're calling Workshop Weekend

"Nous vous faisions part, la semaine dernière, des bons conseils d'Ethan Zuckerman pour utiliser intelligemment le financement participatif pour mener à bien des projets citoyens… Le chercheur, directeur du Centre des médias civiques du MIT, a récemment complété son propos à l'occasion d'une conférence donnée à l'université Flinders à Adélaïde en Australie qu'il a retranscrite sur son blog (vidéo). Pour lui, l'expérience de financement participatif de Jase Wilson qu'il évoquait (le développeur Jase Wilson a lancé une collecte de dons sur l'internet pour financer une ligne de tramway à Kansas City, un projet que la ville venait d'abandonner faute de financement) est un exemple de la façon dont les "natifs" d'internet utilisent l'internet pour exercer leur citoyenneté, et s'engager via de nouvelles formes d'outils dans la vie civique."

Le format MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) tend à prendre de l'importance dans l'offre de cours en ligne. Du moins, un nombre grandissant de cours ouverts, gratuits et en ligne sont-ils qualifiés de MOOC. Les récentes initiatives du MIT et de Stanford, que nous avons présentées dans un récent article, sont ainsi assimilées à des MOOC par Christine Cupaiuolo dans un billet publié sur le blog Spotlight

The 2012 Civic Media Conference featured two full days of conversations about (what else?) the future of civic media and democracy. One conversation is particularly worth calling out and sharing with the Govfresh audience: a panel assessing what's gone wrong and what's gone right with open government in the United States over the past three years. The discussion was moderated by Susan Crawford, currently of the Harvard Law School and Kennedy School (and formerly a special advisor at the White House) and featured Mike Norman of Wefunder.com, Mark Headd of Code for America and Chris Vein, Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer for Government Innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. I've embedded the video below:

Recent research shows that consumers collectively generate massive amounts of product innovation. These findings are a wake-up call for both companies and consumers - and have significant implications for our understanding of new product development.