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        Teaching Machines

        Teaching Machines

        The History of Personalized Learning

        by Audrey Watters

        ISBN: 9780262546065

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 7, 2023

        How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines—from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box.
        Girls Coming to Tech!

        Girls Coming to Tech!

        A History of American Engineering Education for Women

        by Amy Sue Bix

        ISBN: 9780262546515

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 1, 2022

        How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.
        Making Games for Impact

        Making Games for Impact

        by Kurt Squire

        ISBN: 9780262542173

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 26, 2021

        Designing games for learning: case studies show how to incorporate impact goals, build a team, and work with experts to create an effective game.
        Schools and Screens

        Schools and Screens

        A Watchful History

        by Victoria Cain

        ISBN: 9780262045230

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 19, 2021

        Why screens in schools—from film screenings to instructional television to personal computers—did not bring about the educational revolution promised by reformers.
        From the Basement to the Dome

        From the Basement to the Dome

        How MIT's Unique Culture Created a Thriving Entrepreneurial Community

        by Jean-Jacques Degroof

        Foreword by Bob Metcalfe

        ISBN: 9780262046152

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 7, 2021

        How a bottom-up problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset have nurtured entrepreneurship at MIT.
        A Widening Sphere

        A Widening Sphere

        Evolving Cultures at MIT

        by Philip N. Alexander

        ISBN: 9780262543996

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 3, 2021

        How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.
        Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World

        Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education Policy around the World

        Edited by Martin R. West and Ludger Woessmann

        ISBN: 9780262045681

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 27, 2021

        Comparative analyses of public opinion on education policy in developed countries.
        Education Crossing Borders

        Education Crossing Borders

        How Singapore and MIT Created a New University

        by Dara R. Fisher

        ISBN: 9780262539036

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 11, 2020

        The chronicle of a ten-year partnership between MIT and Singapore's Education Ministry that shows cross-border collaboration in higher education in action.
        Playful Visions

        Playful Visions

        Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture

        by Meredith A. Bak

        ISBN: 9780262538718

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 17, 2020

        The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.
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