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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay By Welina Farah, MIT Open Learning The capacity to do what was once only “in the movies” has transformed conversations. Instead of asking “Is…
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Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research scientist based in MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering. She’s also a skilled and passionate educator, whose OCW resource Making Science and…
Continue readingPhysics is a Contact Sport
By Peter Chipman, Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant If you’re exceptionally gifted, you might be able to learn the established facts of physics by reading books and articles…
Continue readingDoctoral Students Aren’t Lone Wolves: An interview with Brian Charles Williams
By Peter Chipman, Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant Robotics and artificial intelligence are fast-paced fields in which researchers constantly have to adapt to new technological developments. But in…
Continue readingCollege Search Support From Your Friends at OCW
To all students who are now deep into the autumn ritual of college applications, along with all the other demands of your year: we feel you! While we can’t join…
Continue readingHow Would You Like Your Grade? An Interview with George Verghese
By Peter Chipman, Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant The syllabus for a typical MIT course spells out a familiar grading scheme that assigns fixed percentage weights to the…
Continue readingOCW’s Greatest Hits: Architecture and Urban Studies and Planning
It’s time for a new post in our Greatest Hits series, highlighting individual MIT departments through a handpicked selection from their most-visited OCW courses. This month we feature the departments of…
Continue reading5 Tips for Getting to Know Your Students
By Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager Students learn better when you see them as individuals and care about their success. But it can be challenging to get to know…
Continue readingSpotlighting Important (mini) Figures in STEM: An Interview with Maia Weinstock
By Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager Women scientists and engineers have long played significant roles in shaping STEM disciplines and advancing technological innovation, yet many go unrecognized. (Case in…
Continue readingInvestigating Earth’s Earliest Life (MIT News)
A brilliant hands-on activity by her second grade teacher got Kelsey Moore, now an MIT graduate student, wondering about the earliest life on Earth. Students and teachers alike can find…
Continue readingVenturing Outside the Norm to Engage Learners
By Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager Why did you become a teacher? For most people, the opportunity to catalyze students’ curiosity about the world into understanding was a major…
Continue readingEmulating the Beatles, Learning from Each Other: An interview with Teresa Neff
By Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager Header Image: The Beatles (Image courtesy of Pineapples101 on Flickr. License: BY-NC-SA). MIT juniors and seniors recently had the opportunity to take a…
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