This year’s awardees are Professors Paloma Duong (Latin American and Media Studies), Frank Schilbach (Economics), and Justin Steil (Urban Studies and Planning). MIT OpenCourseWare is honored to share courses from two of this year’s fellows:
Frank Schilbach
- 14.13 Psychology and Economics (Includes an Instructor Insights page with an embedded podcast interview, in which Prof. Schilbach explains how psychologically-informed interventions can not only boost people’s productivity, earnings, and savings, but can even increase their tendency toward benevolence and cooperation.)
Justin Steil
- 11.368 Environmental Justice Law and Policy
- 11.401 Introduction to Housing, Community, and Economic Development (with Prof. J. Phillip Thompson)
- 11.469 Urban Sociology in Theory and Practice
Through the MIT OpenCourseWare Educator initiative, we’ve also collected Instructor Insights from countless other MIT professors advancing teaching and learning in their fields, including many past MacVicar fellows. Among them are Christopher Capozzola, discussing how technological developments have fundamentally altered our relationship with truth; John Gabrieli, on the importance of inspiring students rather than simply informing them; and Nancy Kanwisher, describing why she views the effort to understand the mind as “the grandest scientific quest of all time.”
(Photos of Paloma Duong (left, by Allegra Boverman), Frank Schilbach (center, by Teresa Marenzi and Daniel Bachler), and Justin Steil (right, by Sarah Culver), courtesy of MIT News.)
