Janin Jadotte of the Faculté des Sciences of the Université d’État d’Haïti describes areas of potential collaborations between MIT faculty and Haiti’s Faculté des Sciences:
- Developing an expertise in the area of distance learning.
- Putting in place with MIT and others universities specialized training and reseach programs in different STEM areas—for example, in chemistry, mechanics of soils, computer science and statistics.
- Developing platforms for blended learning with a mix of traditional on-site methods and e-learning applications, including distance learning.
- Put in place a specialized laboratory for the certification of communications equipments coming to Haiti.
And he identifies five strategic objectives for the next ten to twenty years:
- Improve the quality of teaching.
- Increase and diversity teaching areas.
- Improve the working conditions of university professors at Haiti’s State University.
- Decentralize the State University.
- Develop the State University’s research programs and the University’s services to the community.
