MIT’s Strategy for Educational Technology Innovation, 1999–2003外语英文电子书.pdfVIP

I N V I T E D P A P E R MIT’s Strategy for Educational Technology Innovation, 1999–2003 This inside history describes the motivation and rationale behind a decade of evolution and growth for technology initiatives and projects at MIT. By Hal Abelson, Fellow IEEE, and Phillip D. Long ABSTRACT | This paper discusses the institutional framework Beginning in 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of and the strategic decisions the led the launch of several major Technology (MIT) launched the most extensive array of educational technology initiatives at the Massachusetts Insti- coordinated educational technology innovations it had tute of Technology (MIT) between 1999 and 2003. It describes embarked on in a quarter-century. Activities ranged from how MIT’s central administration provided strategic support single-semester experiments by individual faculty mem- and coordination for large educational technology programs bers and small student groups to sweeping institutional and traces how strategies evolved as work progressed through commitments with global scope to major alliances with 2003 to a point where major projects had been launched and university and industrial partners. were ready to proceed as ongoing concerns. The history This paper discusses the institutional framework within recounted here provides a snapshot of a world-class universi- which these initiatives were undertaken and the key ty’s confronting the changing environment for higher educa- strategic decisions that led to specific activities. It describes tion engendered by information technology at beginning of the