Education

Education is core to MIT and a major opportunity for collaboration between universities, schools, teachers, and learners across Africa.

MIT Initiatives + Programs

MIT is home to ground-breaking education intiatives and programs with a strong focus on African collaborations.

Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL)

Leveraging MIT’s resources to convene a global community of collaborators for sustainable, high-impact transformation in education through research, policy, pedagogy, and practice.

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MITx

Through MITx, the Institute furthers its commitment to improving education worldwide.

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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)

A web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

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MITili

The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) is studying learning the MIT way: through rigorous, interdisciplinary research on the fundamental mechanisms of learning and how we can improve it.

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MicroMasters

MicroMasters is a professional and academic credential for online learners from anywhere in the world.

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Media Lab Learning Initiative

ML Learning is a new MIT Media Lab initiative that promotes creative learning: projects, passion, peers, and play.

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Meeting the challenges of higher education, Curriculum Design is a collegial and collaborative program that introduces MIT approaches of problem-solving, learning science, entrepreneurship and use of online tools

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Science and Engineering Program for Teachers (SEPT)

Each year, SEPT teachers attend lectures from top scientists, try out the latest technology developed on campus, and talk shop with an outstanding group of passionate educators – professors, students, researchers, and teachers at sessions together all week long.

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Practical Impact Alliance (PIA)

The MIT Practical Impact Alliance harvests the power of collaborative learning and action to increase, accelerate, and sustain impact on global poverty.

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Fellowships

MIT hosts and provides funding for African fellows, and supports members of the MIT community, through intensive, educational fellowships.

MIT-Empowering the Teachers

The MIT-Empowering the Teachers (MIT-ETT) program at MIT strives to foster innovation in science and engineering education in tertiary academic institutions in Africa through an intense engagement with faculty members from African universities.

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SPURS

The Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) program provides the opportunity for mid-career professionals who are or will be shaping policy in developing countries to further develop their planning and problem-solving capacities.

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Sloan Fellows

This global leadership development program is a 12-month, full-time executive MBA program designed to prepare an elite group of global mid-career managers with the management skills necessary to magnify their impact as leaders and innovators.

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D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship

The MIT D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship offers one year of support to social entrepreneurs bringing poverty-alleviating products and services to market at scale. Scale-Ups Fellows receive a $20,000 grant, tailored mentorship, skills-building, and networking opportunities. Alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the International Development Design Summit (IDDS) are eligible to apply.

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Legatum Fellowship

The Legatum Fellowship is a competitive program designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs gain a world class education at MIT in order to launch and scale their ventures and maximize their likelihood of success as principled entrepreneurial leaders and agents for change who will transform society and improve global wellbeing. Every year, approximately 20 highly-motivated student entrepreneurs are selected.

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MITei Energy Fellows

The Society of Energy Fellows at MIT is a network of graduate students and postdoctoral associates supported by MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) Founding and Sustaining Members. Fellows pursue a diverse array of energy research projects and are deeply engaged in helping achieve MITEI’s mission: to transform the world’s energy systems by linking science, policy, and technology. Graduate students and postdocs are selected to receive this prestigious award in recognition of keen interest in energy, excellent academic record, and promising future.

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Africa related subjects & Concentration

In addition to a concentration in African studies, MIT offers courses with a focus on Africa both on campus and in partner countries.

African and African Diaspora Studies Concentration

Offers a variety of subjects on the history, culture and structure of societies of African descent throughout the world, with special emphasis on those of the United States and the Caribbean.

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17.571 Engineering Democratic Development in Africa

Examines the varied relationship between democracy and human development in sub-Saharan Africa. Encourages students to apply engineering thinking to better understand which institutions, practices, and technologies have helped, and which have hindered, the achievement of health, education, infrastructure, and other outcomes. Addresses many of the challenges and dilemmas of democratic practice in poor, diverse, and unequal societies, while inviting students to propose practical interventions.

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Developmental Ventures (DV)

Development Ventures (DV) is an exploratory elective Action Lab on founding, financing, and building entrepreneurial ventures targeting developing countries, emerging markets, and underserved consumers everywhere. Particular emphasis is placed on transformative innovations and exponentially scalable business models that can enable or accelerate major positive social change throughout the world.https://d-lab.mit.edu/courses/development-ventures

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Executive & Professional Education

MIT offers high-quality, dynamic workshops and programming for both individuals, organizations, and industry

Professional Education

MIT Professional Education offers lifelong learning opportunities — whether on-campus, online, in an international location, or at your company site.

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Sloan Executive Education

Programs prepare business professionals for their biggest challenges, equipping them with the tools to take their careers to the next level.

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J-WEL Workshops

J-WEL Workshops are ‘deep dive’ collaborations with MIT faculty and staff and focus on specific topics.

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Resources on Campus

On the MIT campus there are programs and spaces to support educational engagements

Teaching & Learning Lab

The mission of the Teaching and Learning Lab is to jointly partner with MIT educators to create an educational environment where students are academically challenged, actively engaged, and personally supported.

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Technology-Enhanced Activity Learning (TEAL)

Technology-enabled active learning is a teaching format that merges lectures, simulations, and hands-on desktop experiments to create a rich collaborative learning experience.

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D-Lab Workshop

A place where D-Lab students bring technologies for the developing world to life. An average of 150 students use the shop each year to test ideas, build prototypes, and refine technologies intended to improve the lives of some of the poorest people in the world. Dozens of prototypes are developed in the shop each year.

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