By Welina Farah, MIT Open Learning This month, students across India are prepping for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a two-part rigorous and thorough national-level standardized test for future engineers….
Continue readingView from the top of Verrückt, the world’s tallest waterslide. (Image courtesy of Schlitterbahn Waterparks & Resorts. Used with permission.) By Cheryl Siegel You’ve climbed 246 stairs, and now you’re…
Continue readingBy Cheryl Siegel When you think of students at a university, you might imagine them taking classes, doing homework, participating in sports or maybe working at the school newspaper. But…
Continue reading“Some people think I’m gifted, but I don’t think so. OCW was a gift to me. I was lucky to be born at the time MIT was opening up education…
Continue readingIt’s National Chemistry Week! This yearly event, organized by the American Chemical Society, encourages chemists and chemistry enthusiasts to promote the value of chemistry in everyday life. This year’s theme is “The…
Continue readingLast week, edX announced their new high school initiative: 26 MOOCs specifically geared to the needs and interests of high school students around the world. As edX CEO Anant Agarwal wrote in…
Continue readingWe’ve written about flipped classrooms on the blog before: In a traditional classroom, the instructor lectures, presents information to the students, and then the students work through problems on their…
Continue readingThe winner of this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is going after one world’s most deadly diseases: malaria. “What if I told you I could save 1 million lives, every…
Continue readingMIT OCW will be at the USA Science & Engineering Festival to share our site Highlights for High School, which got a facelift earlier this year. We’ll have magnets, bookmarks,…
Continue readingAt long last (and with much effort on the part of our publication team) our site for high school students, Highlights for High School, has caught up with the rest…
Continue readingSome of you may have noticed when we launched our new site design last year, Highlights for High School did not get the treatment. We’re happy to report Highlights will…
Continue readingGreat event at MIT this weekend: Science-Minded Kids to Show Projects at MIT By Maria Doyle | Published: April 30, 2013 The weather is finally turning to Spring… so what’s…
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