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Educational Reform at MIT: Advancing and Evaluating Technology-Based Projects On- and Off-Campus

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This issue is the first of two special issues that present a diverse collection of studies which describe and discuss innovative approaches to science and technology teaching and learning at MIT. This issue focuses on advancing and evaluating technology-based projects on-campus, while the second one will focus mainly on off-campus technology-based projects.

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I would like to express my gratitude to all the contributors to this special issue, my MIT colleagues, as well as Joel Mintzes who read and critiqued the articles, and to Karen Cohen for her support and encouragement.

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  1. Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel

    Yehudit Judy Dori

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Yehudit Judy Dori

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Dori, Y.J. Educational Reform at MIT: Advancing and Evaluating Technology-Based Projects On- and Off-Campus. J Sci Educ Technol 16, 279–281 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-007-9050-x

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