MIT LINC
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) is an international community of scholars and practitioners who are focused on technology-leveraged higher education in emerging nations. MIT LINC shares best practices, helps make professional connections between and among participants and fosters innovative programmatic initiatives that can be formally evaluated for effectiveness. Its efforts are motivated by the needs of young people around the globe who reach college age and who face, with few exceptions, limited opportunities to receive quality tertiary education. MIT LINC describes itself as a ‘professional society with an entrepreneurial attitude’.[1]
[edit] History
To date MIT LINC has held four successful annual symposia in 2003, 2004, and 2005, and one international conference in 2007 bringing over 100 participants to Cambridge, MA and over 500 participants to the Dead Sea, Jordan and to Dubai. Participants in LINC symposia and conferences represent over 40 countries including, but not limited to, Algeria, Armenia, Canada, Chile, China, Ethiopia, France, Gaza, Hong Kong, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, Syria, and Venezuela. Scholarly and practical results are equally important. MIT LINC does not seek to become a virtual university.
[edit] See also
- Asynchronous learning
- Blended learning
- Educational technology
- E-learning
- Instructional technology
- Networked learning
- MIT OpenCourseWare
