Turn your smartphone into a microscope for $10 (Instructables)
The fun website Instructables.com has instructions for turning your smartphone into a microscope using the lens from…
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Complete Guide to Open Educational Resources (Campus Technology)
This month, the online magazine Campus Technology published an issue all about open educational resources (OERs). Take a look…
Report: Open educational resources in less used languages
If you’re interested in accessibility of open educational resources (OERs), you might want to read this new…
How Math Got Its ‘Nobel’ (The New York Times)
This weekend the New York Times told the story of the Fields Medal, one of the highest…
Flipped Classroom May Help Weaker STEM Students (US News)
We’ve written about the flipped classroom on Open Matters before, and it’s exciting to see new data…
Why Are Colleges Getting So Expensive? (The Atlantic)
OpenCourseWare and MOOCs exist in a landscape of increasingly expensive higher education. The Atlantic explains the economics…
Engineering Courses to Help You Boldly Go Where You’ve Never Gone Before. (edX blog)
Excerpted from the edX blog. Patrick Cavallario, edX Community Manager | 07.29.2014 The first engineer I ever…
This Is The Physics Lesson Of The Future, And It Looks Insanely Fun (FastCoDesign)
An afternoon at the playground might be the perfect time to introduce kids to physics. SciPlay, part…
Study: AP Chemistry Students in Flipped Classroom Outperform Students in a Traditional Classroom
We’ve written about flipped classrooms on the blog before: In a traditional classroom, the instructor lectures, presents…
How to Share your Achievements on LinkedIn (edX blog)
Did you know that you can add your edX certificates to your LinkedIn profile? The edX blog…
Professor Startled to See MIT Course Featured As Jeopardy Clue (Boston.com)
Maybe I should retire; what can top this? My MIT class was the answer to @Jeopardy ?…
Profile of Edward DeLong (PNAS)
If you flip through the new issue of the PNAS, you’ll notice a profile of MIT professor…