How 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 readingWe found 0 resources for you...
Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future
OCW covers 17 MIT special subject areas in History Theodore Roosevelt once said, “I believe that the more you know about the past, the better you are prepared for the…
Continue readingTalking about Creoles, Speaking in Kreyòl
By Peter Chipman, Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant We’re excited to announce the publication of the OpenCourseWare version of Professor Michel DeGraff’s course 24.908 Creole Languages and Caribbean…
Continue readingPhysics is a Contact Sport
By Peter Chipman, Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant If you’re exceptionally gifted, you might be able to learn the established facts of physics by reading books and articles…
Continue readingThe Facts Don’t Speak for Themselves
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Big data is the signature feature of the Information Age. It reveals patterns we could never see before, patterns in consumer behavior, medical treatments,…
Continue readingGood Vibrations Making Big Waves
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Good, good, good, good vibrations . . . are not just fundamental to love, but to the structure of the universe itself. In fact,…
Continue readingBrains, Minds and Machines: An Interdisciplinary Tour-de-Force
What is the nature of intelligence? How does the brain produce intelligent behavior? How can we apply this understanding to build wiser and more useful machines, for the benefit of…
Continue readingInsights on Teaching Japanese, in Japanese (and English)
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director OCW has just published 21G.503 Japanese III, the third in a four-course sequence on Japanese taught at MIT. With relatively few Japanese speakers on…
Continue readingSome Timely Courses for Our Trying Times
Residents begin to assess the damage after Hurricane Maria hit the island of Dominica in September 2017. (Public domain image by Roosevelt Skerrit on Flickr). By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication…
Continue readingFly High, Fly Low
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Ever hear someone complain about a recent flight on an airliner? There wasn’t enough legroom to stretch out, the food (if there was any)…
Continue readingBiochemistry Becomes Us All
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Did you know that life, in all its mindboggling diversity, from single-celled bacteria to reptiles, birds, and mammals, is made possible by ten simple…
Continue readingAsia in the Modern World: Images to Flip Over
OCW has just published an updated version of 21G.027 Asia in the Modern World: Images and Representations. It is an unusual course site, with a unique history, and a remarkable…
Continue reading