Revolutionizing Education in Haiti For the first time ever, Haitian faculty are using digital resources for active learning in their national language of Haitian Creole (aka “Kreyòl”) for high school and university-level education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Open digital resources created at MIT and elsewhere and translated into Kreyol, are providing portable [...]
Atelye MIT-Ayiti sou edikasyon ki san baryè e ki kore ak teknoloji Pòtoprens, Ayiti, 15-17 janvye 2015 Oganizatè: Ministè Edikasyon Nasyonal ak Fòmasyon Pwofesyonèl (MENFP) ansanm ak Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti Kowòdonatè: Michel DeGraff ak Vijay Kumar (MIT) epi Paul Mentor (MENFP, Biwo MENFP/MIT-Ayiti) PDF kalandriye atelye a Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti a ansanm ak Ministè Edikasyon Nasyonal ak [...]
MIT-Haiti Workshops on Technology-Enhanced and Open Education Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 15-17, 2015 Organizers: Haiti's Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (MENFP) and MIT-Haiti Initiative Coordinators: Michel DeGraff and Vijay Kumar (MIT) and Paul Mentor (MENFP/MIT-Haiti Bureau) PDF Workshop Schedule The MIT-Haiti Initiative and Haiti's Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (MENFP) are hosting [...]
Atelye MIT-Ayiti sou edikasyon ki san baryè e ki kore ak teknoloji Pòtoprens, Ayiti, 15-17 janvye 2015 Oganizatè: Ministè Edikasyon Nasyonal ak Fòmasyon Pwofesyonèl (MENFP) ansanm ak Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti Kowòdonatè: Michel DeGraff ak Vijay Kumar (MIT) epi Paul Mentor (MENFP, Biwo MENFP/MIT-Ayiti) PDF kalandriye atelye a Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti a ansanm ak Ministè Edikasyon Nasyonal ak [...]
MIT-Haiti Workshops on Technology-Enhanced and Open Education Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 15-17, 2015 Organizers: Haiti's Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (MENFP) and MIT-Haiti Initiative Coordinators: Michel DeGraff and Vijay Kumar (MIT) and Paul Mentor (MENFP/MIT-Haiti Bureau) PDF Workshop Schedule The MIT-Haiti Initiative and Haiti's Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (MENFP) are hosting [...]
The New York Times - The Opinion Pages By Michel DeGraff and Molly Ruggles CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — IN a classroom in Port-au-Prince, Chantou, 9, sits silently at her desk. Nervously watching the teacher, she hopes to be invisible. Like most of her 60 classmates, she understands little of the French from the lecture. But if [...]
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Prime minister and cabinet members attend leadership workshop with MIT professors. MIT Sloan School of Management August 4, 2014 Two MIT professors traveled to Haiti this summer to conduct an intensive leadership workshop with the country’s prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, and more than 50 Haitian government ministers and cabinet members. MIT Sloan professor Deborah Ancona [...]
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In search of positive change: Deborah Ancona (left), Laurent Lamothe and Michel DeGraff The poverty-stricken Caribbean country of Haiti faces intense challenges. A World Bank report in 2014 states that Haiti remains the poorest country in the Americas and one of the poorest in the world. Its problems were exacerbated by the devastating earthquake in [...]
