Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare, This April marks the 20th anniversary of OCW. For two decades you’ve learned with us, shared your stories with us, shared our resources with others, tuned…
Continue readingBy Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant For the past 29 years, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has honored several MIT professors each year who have made…
Continue readingThis 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…
Continue readingBy 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 readingPhotograph 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 readingWatch 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 readingThe 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 readingEvery 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 readingBy 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 readingBy 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 readingFelice 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…
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