Inside the MIT IDSS and Great Learning Collaboration | Prof. Munther Dahleh |
What does it take for an MIT professor to call an online learning company his "biggest fan"?
Prof. Munther Dahleh is the Founding Director of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and the William A. Coolidge Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Drawing from decades of teaching and leadership at MIT, he has helped shape programs that bring world-class data and AI education to working professionals.
In this short video, Prof. Dahleh shares what has made his partnership with Great Learning work from the very first conversations. His guiding rule was simple: make it easy for faculty to get where they want to go. He breaks down how that principle shows up across the whole program, from course popularity to content development and learner mentoring.
What's Covered:
🎓 The Faculty-First Rule: why the guiding principle from day one was making it easy for professors to get where they want to go.
🤝 Partnership, Not Just Platform: how a strong learning partner supports faculty well beyond enrollment and sales.
📚 Content Development Support: the role a dedicated team plays in shaping course material with faculty.
🧭 Mentoring at Scale: why learner mentoring is a key piece of what makes a program actually work.
🏛️ An MIT Leader's Perspective: what decades of teaching and leadership at MIT reveal about building programs learners love.
About Great Learning:
Great Learning is a global ed-tech company offering professional and higher education programs in AI, Gen AI, data science, technology, and business, in collaboration with top universities including MIT Professional Education, Texas McCombs at UT Austin, JHU, and Northwestern University. Explore 1,200+ free courses on Great Learning Academy: https://www.mygreatlearning.com/academy
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