By Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant Welcome News We were delighted to hear that Masami Ikeda-Lamm is one of six educators in MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts,…
Continue readingBy Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant For the past 29 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has honored several MIT professors each year who have made…
Continue readingThe Nobel Prize in Economics just awarded to MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee (along with Harvard colleague Michael Kremer) recognizes the transformational results of their antipoverty research and…
Continue readingBy Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager For the past 25 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has honored several MIT professors each year who have made outstanding contributions to…
Continue readingBy 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…
Continue readingThe Tech Awards is an annual program run by The Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley to honor a select group of innovative projects and high-impact young companies working in education, healthcare,…
Continue readingBy Lisa Eichel, MITx Community and Outreach Manager A DNA structure animation created for the MITx course 7.28.1x Molecular Biology: DNA Replication and Repair won the BioCommunications Association Medical Education Award…
Continue readingThe National Science Foundation has just announced awards for its 2015 Teaching and Learning Video Showcase: Improving Science, Math, Engineering, and Computer Science Education. Two projects involving our MIT Office of Digital Learning…
Continue readingAs reported last week, some MIT math students recently racked up a big honor. MIT swept the board at this year’s prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, winning the team award and…
Continue readingThe winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize have been trickling from Sweden this week, so now seems like a great opportunity to highlight courses on OCW taught by MIT’s own…
Continue readingThis weekend the New York Times told the story of the Fields Medal, one of the highest prizes in mathematics that is somewhat shrouded in myth: On Wednesday in Seoul,…
Continue readingIf you flip through the new issue of the PNAS, you’ll notice a profile of MIT professor Edward DeLong. DeLong is known for his work in marine microbiology, and he…
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