15 Years Ago, the Big Idea was Announced
Photo by Wolfgang Lutz on Unsplash, license CC 0 (public domain) People hear about OpenCourseWare for the first time every day (I see the comments on Twitter!), but can you…
Continue readingPhoto by Wolfgang Lutz on Unsplash, license CC 0 (public domain) People hear about OpenCourseWare for the first time every day (I see the comments on Twitter!), but can you…
Continue readingMIT OpenCourseWare is honored to have two (!!) classes in HuffPost Tech’s new list, “9 College Courses That Will Have You Geeking Out And Rethinking Your Major,” plus another course in the…
Continue reading“Alone, together.” It’s become common wisdom that technology like smartphones and iPods are driving us apart, that we’re losing human interaction in public spaces. But maybe it’s not really about the technologies,…
Continue readingThanks to Bloomberg Business for the recognition that MIT offers some of the best computer science education in the country: Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S. This is where…
Continue readingMIT does not have an education school, but it’s just announced a big new initiative with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation on elementary and secondary teacher training. From MIT News: MIT,…
Continue readingPhotographer has front-row seat for big scientific discoveries By Nidhi Subbaraman Ansel Adams earned renown for his landscape photography. Annie Leibovitz became famous with her portraits of the rich and…
Continue readingMeaningful work. Isn’t that what we all want? Meaningful work—specifically, societally meaningful work—might also be a key to increasing women’s participation in engineering careers. (Not to mention making our world a…
Continue readingWith the 2nd season of its hit series Science Out Loud now released, MIT+K12 Videos has been garnering plenty of attention. The PBS Nova Education blog recently posted this profile and interview with MIT+K12 program manager…
Continue readingJeffrey Selingo, a contributing editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education, has written extensively about online education and the emergence of MOOCs. In a New York Times essay adapted from his…
Continue reading“I want to tell you about one of the most beautiful ideas that I know. It’s a physics experiment, and it’s beautiful because in one elegant stroke, it expands our…
Continue readingThe first MOOCs have produced abundant data about students and learning behaviors, and perhaps even more press coverage about what it all means for the future of education. Take the oft-discussed low completion…
Continue readingMaybe I should retire; what can top this? My MIT class was the answer to @Jeopardy ? last night. (h/t @Henry_Jenkins) pic.twitter.com/ZQQGU34vFP — Sam Ford (@Sam_Ford) July 10, 2014 We…
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