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 readingBy 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…
Continue readingProsperity for a growing global population takes energy…lots of it. Indeed, scholars have linked the progress of modern civilization to a 10,000 year sequence of energy innovations. But now with…
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,…
Continue readingLike many scientific fields, oceanography has gone through big changes in recent decades. It’s been blessed with more high-quality data and powerful computing, leading to more accurate oceanographic models and…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Good, good, good, good vibrations . . . are not just fundamental to love, but to the structure of the universe itself. In fact,…
Continue readingWhat is the nature of intelligence? How does the brain produce intelligent behavior? How can we apply this understanding to build wiser and more useful machines, for the benefit of…
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 Sing! Play! Dance! Make a Scene! Get ready for the fourth and final installment in our survey of the most visited courses in the…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Now for the third installment in our survey of the most visited courses in the Humanities, this one featuring courses from the MIT department…
Continue readingBy Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager For the past 26 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has honored several MIT professors each year who have made outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching,…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Herewith, Part II of our list of the most visited OCW course sites in the Humanities, this part featuring Literature and Writing courses. [See…
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