Meet Dr. Rea Lavi

NEET Lecturer and Curriculum Designer

Rea Lavi, Ph.D., is a Lecturer and Curriculum Designer for the NEET program at MIT, for which he teaches SP.248 The NEET Experience, a first-year, problem-based learning class. Dr. Lavi is also a Digital Education Lecturer and Curriculum Designer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the MIT School of Engineering, where he leads the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality and generative A.I. into residential education.

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Dr. Lavi received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. His research interests involve the design and evaluation of pedagogical frameworks for fostering and assessing complex problem-solving skills. Recently, Dr. Lavi has received a J-WEL Education Innovation Grant for developing and evaluating an AI-enhanced active learning management platform.
Dr. Lavi has conducted numerous workshops on complex problem-solving with STEM instructors, and has published his work in IEEE Transactions on Education, Studies in Educational Evaluation, and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching, among others.

He has two resources putblished on MIT OpenCourseWare: SP.248 NEET Ways of Thinking and Defining Real-World Problems With The D.I.S. Method.

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