Every January, MIT students, faculty, and staff come together and design a special learning experience. Infused with creativity, inventiveness and fun, the four week term, known as Independent Activities Period…
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Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Big data is the signature feature of the Information Age. It reveals patterns we could never see before, patterns in consumer behavior, medical treatments,…
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Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director In this post, we continue our Greatest Hits series, highlighting here the most visited OCW courses from the departments of Political Science and Global…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Most OCW fans are familiar with our list of most visited courses. We update this list every month, but the courses on it typically…
Continue readingBy Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager MIT instructors share their teaching approaches in a special section of their OCW courses, called “Instructor Insights.” In these sections, you’ll find instructors…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director The great majority of courses published on OCW have a communications component to them, in no small part because of MIT’s communications requirement for…
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