CMI continues to extend the range and depth of its increasingly recognised assessment work through its Partnership Programme. The activities focus on educational activities in areas such as Skills Education, Interdisciplinary Curricula, Blended Pedagogy, Professional Entrepreneurial Education, and Assessment.
Teaching for Learning Network (TfLN)
TfLN provides support for faculties, departments and other groups in undertaking research and development projects with a specific focus on improving teaching and learning. The project aims to generate and share theoretical and practical knowledge about pedagogical practices and the institutional conditions that promote their use in support of students' learning.
CMI MPhil Degrees
CMI supported the creation of six MPhil degrees, initially modelled in part on MIT’s experience in developing professional practice programmes. A series of taught degrees that combined advanced technical material with management and innovation were established filling an important gap between specialized MPhils and the MBA.
Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate Exchange (CME)
CME enables students at Cambridge and MIT – reading the same subjects and at the same stage in their degree courses – to swap places for one year. Now beginning our sixth full year of operation, there are fourteen MIT departments and ten Cambridge departments participating in the exchange. CME is now a part of the standard provision of both institutions, and has stimulated other such engagements and programmes.
Education for High Growth Innovation (EHGI)
CMI supports the activities of the Education for High Growth Innovation group to look at the course work studied by technology students and to develop an understanding of the impact of those courses on entrepreneurialism and the management of innovation in business.
Weblabs in Chemical Engineering
Increasingly, critical and expensive processes in the chemical industry are controlled remotely by computers operating in networks. Companies like Procter & Gamble are restructuring their experimental facilities on site to be able to operate processes remotely via their intranet. Current laboratory courses in the chemical engineering curriculum provide little training to prepare students for this. Thus there is an urgent need for robust and realistic training in these tools and processes.
Students frequently face difficulties when seeking to do design projects due to the inherently multidisciplinary nature of design. Access to the wide variety of resources required is often problematic. In single discipline departments, access to the required tools and knowledge can be patchy or worse. MDP started in September 2003 and its primary aim is to collate and develop new teaching material to support multidisciplinary projects in Universities.
CMI Education: 2000 - 2006
CMI helped develop new curricula in areas of emerging technology in order to increase the business skills of graduates, and sponsored new e-learning approaches to teaching. These programmes aim to give students the knowledge, self-confidence and skills to help them be more innovative in their working life. The results of these programmes have been analysed, enabling us to share vital lessons with other universities and academic institutions.
Last updated: 28/03/08
