Organization & Productivity
Moving a product design studio course online with shared visual boards
Educators from MIT Media Lab and Harvard describe using visual boards so students could prototype, collect research and make thinking visible.
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Educators’ report; written during Covid-19
WHAT THEY DID
Facing remote teaching, the teaching team found word-processing and slide tools too linear for open-ended projects, asked students to use Milanote as the main space for organizing project work and developing ideas, and paired it with video calls in a middle-school robotics course and a university product design studio.
HOW IT WENT
The authors say they recreated, and in some ways improved on, the in-person class environment. No measured results.
WORTH KNOWING
An education setting, not client work, and the page shows no date. Useful as a model for shared, visible working spaces.
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Source: Rosa Weinberg, Yusuf Ahmad, David Alsdorf · MIT Media Lab · UndatedOpen as a page
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Type: Institutional report · Firsthand report
- Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses — MIT Media Lab
Rosa Weinberg, Yusuf Ahmad, David Alsdorf · MIT Media Lab · Publication date not stated · Checked Oct 20, 2026
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Added to 4TC Oct 20, 2026 · Last checked Oct 20, 2026
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