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Teaching Machines
The History of Personalized Learning
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!
A History of American Engineering Education for Women
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
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
A Watchful History
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
How MIT's Unique Culture Created a Thriving Entrepreneurial Community
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
Evolving Cultures at MIT
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
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
How Singapore and MIT Created a New University
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
Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture
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.
Teaching Machines
The History of Personalized Learning
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!
A History of American Engineering Education for Women
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
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
A Watchful History
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
How MIT's Unique Culture Created a Thriving Entrepreneurial Community
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
Evolving Cultures at MIT
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
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
How Singapore and MIT Created a New University
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
Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture
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.