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The promise of using WhatsApp for low-tech distance learning

August 6, 2020 MIT Governance Lab

Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.

MIT Political Science Spring'20 Newsletter

May 28, 2020 MIT Political Science

Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize

May 21, 2020 Center for International Studies

Seeing the light

May 13, 2020 Political Science

Blindsided by a pandemic and hunkering down at home instead of celebrating spring on campus, MIT seniors might reasonably be feeling blue. But a group of political science majors glimpse brighter days ahead, as they springboard from rewarding academic programs into meaningful careers.

Teaching Remotely: Political Economy

May 12, 2020 MIT Open Learning

Theories of the State and the Economy (17.100) is a graduate seminar, normally consisting of in-person lectures and facilitated discussions. Faced with quickly transitioning to online teaching and without prior experience, Professors Suzanne Berger and Michael Piore met the challenge in several ways.