Networks are a ubiquitous way to represent complex systems, including those in the social and economic sciences. The goal of the course is to equip students with conceptual tools that can help them understand complex systems that emerge in both nature and social systems. This is a course intended for a general audience and will discuss applications of networks and complexity to diverse systems, including epidemic spreading, social networks and the evolution of economic development.

The course draws on faculty members from the Center for Real Estate, the City Design and Development Group (Department of Urban Studies and Planning), and the Media Lab to explore extraordinary projects that challenge conventional approaches to real estate development, urban design, and advanced digital technology.

Can you make a cellphone change the world?
NextLab is a hands-on year-long design course in which students research, develop and deploy mobile technologies for the next billion mobile users in developing countries. Guided by real-world needs as observed by local partners, students work in multidisciplinary teams on term-long projects, closely collaborating with NGOs and communities at the local level, field practitioners, and experts in relevant fields.
Students are expected to leverage technical ingenuity in both mobile and internet technologies together with social insight in order to address social challenges in areas such as health, microfinance, entrepreneurship, education, and civic activism. Students with technically and socially viable prototypes may obtain funding for travel to their target communities, in order to obtain the first-hand feedback necessary to prepare their technologies for full fledged deployment into the real world (subject to guidelines and limitations).

The aim of the students from the Numeric Photography class at the MIT Media Laboratory was to present an exhibition of digital artworks which blend photography and computation, in the context of scene capture, image play, and interaction. Equipped with low end digital cameras, students created weekly software projects to explore aesthetic issues in signal processing and interaction design. The results are more than a hundred Java® applets, many of which are interactive, that suggest new avenues for image play on the computer. These weekly exercises led to the final product, an exhibition of the student work.

Today I will demonstrate how to draw Gasket A, step-by-step. To begin, below is a Finished Drawing of Gasket A.  Instructions for the assignment: Begin a New Drawing in AutoCAD, Set Limits to 0,0 and 8,6.  Set Snap and Grid values appropriately. Units are Decimal inches with a precision of 0.00”.  We will create the gasket above.  Draw only the gasket shape, do not add dimensions or centerlines. (HINT: Locate and draw the four 0.5” diameter Circles, then create the concentric 0.5” radius arcs as full Circles then Trim. Make use of the Object Snaps and Trim whenever applicable.) Save the drawing using the filename GASKET A. Click to begin the video. 

OER Fundamentals are invited to remix this course planning template to design and share their OER project plans, course information and syllabus, and reflection.

OER Fundamentals are invited to remix this course planning template to design and share their OER project plans, course information and syllabus, and reflection.

This Open Educational Resources site will complement textbooks and lectures with obvious information gaps. An extension of regular learning content. For example, you can accompany the text with multimedia materials such as videos. By presenting information in multiple formats, students can more easily learn the material being taught.

Process-based assessment is an innovative approach to evaluating student learning that focuses on the methods and strategies employed by learners rather than solely on the final outcomes. This assessment method acknowledges the importance of the learning process and the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and other essential skills. This work presents a process-based assessment, and provides a scoring rubric to guide educators in implementing this approach effectively.

This is an introductory project that addresses identifying the Elements of Art and Principles of Composition in immediate surroundings and provides these terms a real-time life application. The project is interactive and exploratory, requiring individual observation of a students' physical world. This project can be modified to include more images, changes in grid template and combined to include both Elements and Principles together; incluiding identifying other terms in art such as mediums. The project can be used in an online formatted course or a face to face environment. Including Art Appreciation, Art Orientation, Two-Dimensional Design and Three-Dimensional Design studio courses. 

Students will be completing a capstone project for an Adobe Photoshop/Graphic Design course. The students will create 5 new projects and add those along with already completed projects to a Google Sites Portfolio.

Learn how to create and animate art one pixel at a time with Piskelapp! 

In this tutorial students will use some simple tools to create a border and add a drop shadow to create a postcard effect using a free browser-based image-editing program (pixlr.com).

This tutorial will go over how to create a "pop out" effect in a free, browser-based, raster-based editing program (pixlr.com).

Serial Storytelling examines the ways the passing and unfolding of time structures narratives in a range of media. From Rembrandt’s lifetime of self-portraits to The Wire, Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers to contemporary journalism and reportage, we will focus on the relationships between popular culture and art, the problems of evaluation and audience, and the ways these works function within their social context.

The skills of researching, inquiring of, and analyzing one’s own social identity and positionality will be undertaken in a peer-group environment with supportive agreements. This takes place over the first two weeks of the term so that it will serve in this context as a framing device for the overall course. The ability to recognize and articulate one’s own positionality — and to relate it to larger, inseparable systems through intersectionality — will be a valuable life skill that will evolve with the student long beyond the course and their college experience.

This process is intended to serve students equitably by acknowledging the reality of unconscious bias, becoming more aware of intersectionality in our social identities (Hardiman et al., 2007; Sensoy & DiAngelo, 2012), and better understanding how implicit and explicit aspects of our identities affect our experience.

Preguntas de historia oral, adaptado del inglés hecho por University of North Carolina Library: Archivist in a Backpack oral-history question cards.

An introduction to creating electronic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Short Description:
An introduction to creating electronic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. However, it discusses principles that can be applied to any presentation software.

Long Description:
An introduction to creating electronic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. However, it discusses principles that can be applied to any presentation software.

Word Count: 15307

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When we know how to communicate effectively, we can plan our designs around a target audience. Included is a lesson video and accompanying notes. 

This unit is designed to accompany the study of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Resources encourage students to recognize a variety of propaganda techniques and to connect those techniques to media that they can find in their everyday lives. Resources also help students to understand the historical uses of propaganda by governments and political parties to influence public opinion. Resources can be used independently of the novel.