OCW Faculty Profile: Shigeru Miyagawa
This linguistics professor says sharing course materials online is “one of the best things that can happen” to a teacher. By MIT OpenCourseWare In Japan, one of the biggest cultural…
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Courses from MIT’s 2020 MacVicar Fellows
By Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant For the past 28 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has honored several MIT professors each year who have made…
Continue readingFaculty Profile: Hazel Sive
Photograph from 7.01SC Fundamentals of Biology. An illustration showing the double helix structure of DNA (Image courtesy of the National Human Genome Research Institute). How Do Cells Organize Themselves Into a…
Continue readingHow to Speak, How to Live
Watch this one-hour master class on effective presentations by the late Patrick Winston. By Curt Newton, OCW Director “Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to…
Continue readingA Wealth of OCW Content from Nobel Prize-Winning MIT Economists Duflo and Banerjee
The Nobel Prize in Economics just awarded to MIT economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee (along with Harvard colleague Michael Kremer) recognizes the transformational results of their antipoverty research and…
Continue readingIAP: A Fusion of Fun and Learning at MIT
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…
Continue readingCourses from MIT’s 2019 MacVicar Fellows
By Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant For the past 27 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has honored several MIT professors each year who have made outstanding…
Continue readingImproving Student Engagement through Active Learning
By Peter Chipman, Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant Dr. Katrina LaCurts, a lecturer in MIT’s department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, had a problem. Her course 6.033…
Continue readingJudge This Book By Its Cover
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 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 readingGo Deep With Oceanographer Carl Wunsch
Like 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…
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