MIT Project-Based Learning Exemplars
2.729 (Design for Scale) teaches how to scale solutions for challenges in the developing world, touching on product design, assembly, and entrepreneurship. “Students who take this class all want to make a social impact,” Maria Yang says.
6.811: Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology (PPAT)
http://ppat.mit.edu/fall2018/index.html
PPAT is a 12-unit, interdisciplinary, project-based course in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to design a device, piece of equipment, app, or other solution that helps them live more independently. Over the course of the term, each team meets with its "client," iterates through multiple prototypes, and learns about the challenges and realities of designing assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
http://ppat.mit.edu/fall2018/index.html
PPAT is a 12-unit, interdisciplinary, project-based course in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to design a device, piece of equipment, app, or other solution that helps them live more independently. Over the course of the term, each team meets with its "client," iterates through multiple prototypes, and learns about the challenges and realities of designing assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
HST.426 Maker Lab: Creating Technologies to Re-invent Health Care
http://akyoung.scripts.mit.edu/makerlab/
The disparities in affordable healthcare technology are a growing part of increasing healthcare costs globally. We’ll explore affordable prototyping and design strategies for health technology and medicine that can be applied to improve patient care in a variety of settings: both low-income and high-income economies, at patients’ homes and in hospitals.
Using Patient-Generated Data Devices as a learning model, students will design affordable devices that are used by patients to manage their health.
http://akyoung.scripts.mit.edu/makerlab/
The disparities in affordable healthcare technology are a growing part of increasing healthcare costs globally. We’ll explore affordable prototyping and design strategies for health technology and medicine that can be applied to improve patient care in a variety of settings: both low-income and high-income economies, at patients’ homes and in hospitals.
Using Patient-Generated Data Devices as a learning model, students will design affordable devices that are used by patients to manage their health.
Maker Health
http://www.makerhealth.co/explore
At MakerHealth we believe in democratizing the tools of health making around the world. Whether it's a hospital bed, smart pill bottle, or an improved triage mobile phone app we believe that design should be transparent, hackable, and enabling for everyone to be the designers and makers of their own healthcare solutions.
Maker Nurse
http://makernurse.com/
MakerNurse is a community of inventive nurses who are creating solutions to improve patient care every day.
At MakerHealth, we provide the tools, platforms and trainings to help these MakerNurses make the next generation of health technology.
http://www.makerhealth.co/explore
At MakerHealth we believe in democratizing the tools of health making around the world. Whether it's a hospital bed, smart pill bottle, or an improved triage mobile phone app we believe that design should be transparent, hackable, and enabling for everyone to be the designers and makers of their own healthcare solutions.
Maker Nurse
http://makernurse.com/
MakerNurse is a community of inventive nurses who are creating solutions to improve patient care every day.
At MakerHealth, we provide the tools, platforms and trainings to help these MakerNurses make the next generation of health technology.