Education

***Important General Update***

If, for medical/disability reasons, the long line for COVID-19 testing is inaccessible to you, you can request an accommodation and receive documentation you can show to MIT Medical staff to bypass the line.

• Students: Make your request to MIT Student Disability and Access Services at das-all@mit.edu.
• Employees: Make your request to MIT Disability Services at hr-dsmlo@mit.edu.

If the above resources do not resolve your access issue, you can e-mail gsc-officers@mit.edu and we will do our best to help.

Please see the new COVID apps website for more info.

Updates for Spring 2021

• Covid Classroom Capacity (from Jul 2020)
• Instructional Space Planning Guide (from Jul 2020)
• Preparing for In-Person Learning
• Planning Update
• Preliminary exploration of academic calendar options here
• Request for Experiential Learning Opportunity proposals here

Because we have no way to predict the future – for example, when will an effective vaccine be available, and will there be a second wave of infections in the fall? – the campus continues to plan for multiple potential formats for the next academic year.  For more information, see:

Updates for Fall 2020

• How’s remote education going? (UA report)
• Further decisions about the fall semester from Rafael Reif (for undergrads mainly)
• SSG – Academic Continuity statement on grading options represents grad students’ opinion on  grading methods for Fall
• Decision from APART (faculty committee on academic policy adjustments) on Fall grading
• Announcement of Emergency Academic Regulations for Fall 2020
  
  • Subject Counts
  • COVID-19 Faculty Exercise [cw: potentially distressing]
  • Guidance on fabrication, labs and experiments
  • Contingency planning presentation
• Krishna Rajagopal’s “Thoughtfully Remote Semester” letter
• Fall Semester Classroom Scheduling
• Makerspace Policy Guidance

Mid-May

• Slides on current set of fall options
• Slides on classroom capacity at MIT
• General guidelines to open teaching
• Department teaching scenarios input slides
• Department teaching scenarios input summary doc
• Framing the Problem slides for charrettes
  
  

Late May-Early June

• Academic and Residential Life Update
• First Year Online 2020 & 2021+: a more divergent proposal
• Emergency Response: Mass Reopening Higher Education Guidelines
• Campus Space Contingency Plans
• Summer TLL Programming
• Two-Semester Design Input: Constraints, responses
• Best Version of a Two-Semester Model
• Preliminary Assessment of Feedback to Team 2020: includes input from many hundreds of people on values and benefits/drawbacks of models
• Summer programming update
• Team 2020 High-Level Summary of “best” version of each option for 2020-21 Academic Year
• Remote Experience Survey Results
• Team 2020 Final Report on restart options
  
  
  

Mid-June

• Preliminary results of the first MIT Pulse survey; PowerPoint summarizing the findings
• Undergraduate preferences and recommendations (from UA, summary slides here) for AY 2020-21 
• Community Perspectives
• How to Make Remotely 
• How to Design a Subject Remotely  (workshop)
• Information about Canvas LMS
• MIT Pulse Survey, Round 2
  
  
  

July

• Schedule for progression toward Fall registration and teaching
• Sign up for the “Get Ready to Teach Remotely” series of workshops by TLL for all instructors and TAs. They’ll cover educational technology tools, how to engage students, and how to increase community and equity
• Announcement of Task Force 2021‘s official membership and mandate: to develop “the blueprints for building a better MIT”