By Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager
2016 marked the inaugural year of MIT’s Teaching with Digital Technology Awards. These awards, co-sponsored by the Office of Digital Learning, the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, and the Office of the Dean for Graduate Education, are student-nominated awards for faculty and instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. The awards recognize the faculty for their teaching innovations and give the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their practices.
This year’s (first ever!) awardees are Lorna Gibson (materials science and engineering), Max Goldman & Robert Miller (electrical engineering and computer science), Chris Terman (electrical engineering and computer science), Peter Dourmashkin (physics), and Kurt Fendt (comparative media studies/writing).
OCW is honored to share courses and instructional insights from several of this year’s recipients.
Lorna Gibson
- 3.A32 Freshman Seminar: The Nature of Engineering
- 3.054 Cellular Solids: Structure, Properties and Applications (with Instructor Insights)
- 3.225 Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Materials
Rob Miller
- 6.005 Elements of Software Construction (Fall 2008 version)
- 6.005 Elements of Software Construction (Fall 2011 version)
- 6.811 Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology
- 6.831 User Interface Design and Implementation
Chris Terman
Peter Dourmashkin
- 8.01 Physics I
- 8.01X Physics I: Classical Mechanics with an Experimental Focus
- 8.02 Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
- 8.02X Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism with an Experimental Focus
- 8.02T Electricity and Magnetism
- ES.298 Art of Color
Kurt Fendt
Can any of these courses be used to meet the IB program requirements where such a program is not available locally from the student’s IB high school?
OCW materials can certainly be used within a program of study towards IB or even AP certification. But you’ll need to discuss that with your individual school, OCW does not have any formal arrangements for this.