LLx Project Seeks to Improve Online Hands-On Learning

Abstract

Online learning has been around for decades, but educators still struggle to adapt certain hands-on subjects to the web. At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a team of researchers has been working on ways to close this practical learning gap through the Lincoln Laboratory Online Courses (LLx) project. The project was born from a desire to adapt the Laboratory’s internal course offerings for a wider audience. Its goal is to identify best practices for online hands-on learning in order to provide unique Laboratory classes to sponsors, students, and the general public as self-paced, massively open online courses (MOOCs).