John Liu
Lecturer, MIT Mechanical Engineering
I am a Lecturer and researcher in the Mechanical Engineering department and a Fellow of the MITx Digital Learning Laboratory. As the former Director of the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters Program, I facilitated a team of faculty and instructors to develop content and innovate manufacturing education at MIT using digital technology. My current research is in engineering education, the development of open-ended assessments in scalable education settings, and the design of medical devices.
Want to read more to guide your thinking? Here are 3 articles that have been helpful to myself and other colleagues. 1) Chronicle of Higher Education’s “How to Be a Better Online Teacher”. 2) Inside Higher Ed: “So You Want to Temporarily Teach Online”. 3) Inside Higher Ed: “Peer Advice for Teaching Online for th…
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, so here’s a set of practical topics/questions to guide each faculty’s thinking and decisions when it comes to “virtualizing” their class. I used these slides to give an introductory session to the faculty/staff of Mechanical Engineering on transitioning our courses to online teaching. …