By Katherine Ouellette (Article originally published on Medium) Are you looking to expand your knowledge or develop new skills? MIT Open Learning offers free educational resources available to anyone across…
Continue readingA special thanks to all those who attended our celebration and to those who submitted questions. Do you have a new question to submit? We want to help, check out…
Continue readingNow even more opportunities to learn from MIT at your own pace. MIT Open Learning Library (OLL) is a new home to selected educational content from MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx…
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 readingProfessor Jon Gruber’s 14.01SC Principles of Microeconomics is OCW’s most popular economics course, with legions of appreciative fans. Professor Gruber wants the world to understand that economics is not only useful, it’s…
Continue readingOnline learning initiative provides real-world opportunity for students. Chuka Ezeoguine is a student from Port Harcourt, Nigeria, who is majoring in computer science. Driven to help the world’s poor, he…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director If you’re interested in computer programming, you might be familiar with OCW’s extensive resources in the discipline, ranging from our introductory classes to the…
Continue readingMIT’s committed efforts to understand learning and improve it at all levels of education took a big step forward yesterday. As reported by MIT News: MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced today a significant…
Continue readingYesterday MIT introduced a sweeping new five-year plan for action on climate change. This plan embodies the fundamental agreement across our community that the problem of climate change, the subject of…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director By now, most people are somewhat familiar with the concept of a supply chain, the complex of systems that make it possible for a…
Continue readingOur colleagues at MITx have a big fall planned, with many courses starting during September. Here’s motivation to explore one of those upcoming courses. ***** By Lisa Eichel, MITx Community…
Continue readingAs we described in a recent post, OCW gives you a complete picture of the core classes that comprise the typical MIT freshman year. OCW also gives you plenty of next steps. For instance, check…
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