Making the Past Present with Hands-on Humanities
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director MIT is famous for its hands-on engineering projects that students work on into the wee hours of the night. There are over 40 maker…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director MIT is famous for its hands-on engineering projects that students work on into the wee hours of the night. There are over 40 maker…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Airliners crisscrossing the globe, rockets hurtling into space, satellites orbiting distant planets—it’s where the fantastic meets the familiar—it’s aerospace! It’s where dreams of soaring…
Continue readingOCW is pleased to highlight these courses published during the month of October. Five courses are brand-new subjects on OCW, and three courses are updates of older versions. New Courses Comparative…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Teaching at the college level is often exciting and rewarding, but it is rarely easy, especially in discussion-based classes, where learning depends on student…
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 readingWhile July and August are popular months for vacation, OCW has stayed on the job, publishing 17 courses. Check them out, and get in the September back-to-school spirit! New Courses Computer Science: 6.820…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Suppose you had to carry around all the waste you created for an entire week? Cans, packaging, plastic bags, papers of all kinds, plastic…
Continue readingCauam Cardoso was only 17 when he decided to break from family tradition and pursue engineering instead of the arts, a move that set him on a path to working…
Continue readingAs summer settles in, OCW goes into publication overdrive. Early summer has always been one of our busiest seasons, and this year is no exception. So far in 2016, we’ve published…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director For all its renown as a research institute churning out new discoveries and inventions, MIT is just as well-known for its astonishing ability to…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director “If someone does science in a forest, but doesn’t make a sound, did science actually happen?” Professor Michael Short poses this philosophical conundrum to…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Writing courses rank among the most important offerings in any academic curriculum, since nearly everyone needs to know how to write clearly and cogently,…
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