As a proof-of-concept, OCW collaborated with Université Caraïbe, Mr. Menès Dejoie (Haitian Educators League for Progress), and Professors Alfred Noël (UMass-Boston) and Michel DeGraff (MIT) to produce a translated caption file for a lecture in MIT's 18.01 Single Variable Calculus. We have embedded OCW's site here--you can also view the full site.
Jacky Lumarque Jacky LUMARQUE graduated in Mathematics (Université Toulouse III, France). He also holds an MBA (Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France) and a Bachelor in Law (Common Law, Université Lyon III, France). He's the President of Université Quisqueya, Member of the Board of Directors of AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie), Member of the [...]
In the preface, Dr. Louis Herns Marcelin, describes the goals of the report on The Challenge for Haitian Higher Education as: "The goal of this study is to contribute to a national and international dialogue and to recommend solutions to the higher education challenges facing the nation. We identify deficiencies of the current system that [...]
Mme. Michèle Pierre-Louis describes the importance of rebuilding Haiti's education system and of incorporating Haitian voices and Haitian culture in the international reconstruction efforts: "I’ve been an educator for part of my life, and I think education is very significant. Rebuilding the education [system] is rebuilding the future of Haiti. Disaster preparedness should start [...]
We asked participants from Haiti to describe: What projects would you like to help sustain or help initiate and develop through your participation in the symposium and through subsequent partnerships between MIT and Haitian academic institutions? A number of the participants responded: Patrick Attié and Marlene Sam FOKAL Sergey Galliard Anton Lévy Janin Jadotte Lyonel [...]
Kurt Jean-Charles is an Haitian entrepreneur passionate about his country and committed to explore, promote and design innovative systems aiming objective results and positive behavioral impact. He was born in Canada and was raised in Haiti where he obtained his master degree in Computer Science from a joint program offered by Université de Nice- [...]
Jocelyne Trouillot was born and raised in Haiti. After graduating from Ecole Normale Superieure in her country, she went to France to further her studies in psychology and education at Université de Bordeaux. She then moved to New York and completed a Masters in bilingual education at Long Island University . Mrs. Trouillot worked [...]
Janin Jadotte studied mathematics at the University of Montreal and at Concordia University (Montreal). He taught matrix calculus and numerical analysis as a lecturer at Laval University (1980-1981), at the École Polytechnique de Montréal (1981-1982 and 1984-1985) and at the Université Antilles-Guyane ( 1982-1984). Jadotte worked as a statistician at the Haitian Institute of [...]
Raymond Noël graduated in 1980 as a civil engineer from the School of Sciences of the State University of Haiti (UEH). In 1983, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Physical Chemistry of the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse-France. He has been a lecturer for more than 25 years, and he has more than [...]
Thierry Chérizard was born in Cap-Haitian, Northern Haiti, on October 26th, 1975. He grew up in this city where he went to primary and secondary schools. In 1996 he moved to Port-au-Prince, the capital city of the country, to pursue university studies. He studied Civil engineering in the School of Engineering and Architecture [...]
