«The Impact of MOOCs from a Departmental Perspective»

Bio

Mary Ellen Wiltrout completed her Ph.D. thesis studying translesion synthesis in the Graham Walker Laboratory at MIT. In the fall of 2009, she began tutoring MCB 52, Harvard University’s Molecular Biology course with Rich Losick, Briana Burton, and Tom Torello. As a tutor, Mary Ellen managed a team of teachers, oversaw the running of a discovery-based lab for students, and gave talks for the course. She also taught several of her own courses at Harvard’s Extension School including a proseminar on DNA repair and mutagenesis that focuses on primary literature reading and writing. In 2011, she completed the HHMI Summer Institute on “Undergraduate Education in Biology” and led a group as a facilitator in 2012. In 2013, Mary Ellen moved to the Broad Institute to be part of the core group with Michelle Mischke and Brian White to create the Eric Lander’s MITx course on edX: 7.00x Introduction to Biology – The Secret of Life. Mary Ellen now oversees all residential and worldwide MITX projects for the MIT Department of Biology.