OCW Courses From MIT’s Newest AAAS Members
MIT News reports that six MIT faculty members and the chair of the MIT Corporation are among 213 leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts elected…
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2001 Was a Banner Year
This week, as we celebrate the 15 year anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare’s unveiling, we’re reflecting on other great strides taken in 2001 and in the years since. It wasn’t so long ago,…
Continue readingCourses from MIT’s 2016 MacVicar Fellows
Each year, MIT’s MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program honors several MIT professors who have made outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching, educational innovation, and mentoring. Since 1992, over 90 MacVicar Faculty Fellows have been selected…
Continue readingGravitational Waves are Everywhere, Even on OCW
By now, surely you’re heard the dramatic news of the first observations of gravitational waves by the MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories. While the phenomenon of gravitational waves may be new to many of us, MIT…
Continue readingMIT Announces New Learning Research Initiatives
MIT’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 readingIf They Were a Nation, MIT Entrepreneurs Would Be World’s 10th-Largest Economy
A report released yesterday says that, as of 2014, living MIT graduates who have started and built for-profit companies: launched more than 30,000 active firms, created 4.6 million jobs, and generate roughly $1.9 trillion in…
Continue readingOver One Billion Works Use Creative Commons
Open sharing? We couldn’t do it without you, Creative Commons. Since OCW adopted a Creative Commons license in 2004, we’ve shared materials from thousands of MIT courses with hundreds of millions of people around the world….
Continue readingBringing Synthetic Biology Education to Life (MIT News)
Bringing Synthetic Biology Education to Life Rob Matheson | MIT News Office December 4, 2015 Synthetic biology — which involves engineering biological systems for new uses — has become an…
Continue readingFour MIT Faculty elected AAAS Fellows (MIT News)
Four MIT faculty have just been elected AAAS Fellows, in recognition of their “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” OCW is please to have course materials by…
Continue readingThe Inspiring Story of Ahaan Rungta
“Some people think I’m gifted, but I don’t think so. OCW was a gift to me. I was lucky to be born at the time MIT was opening up education…
Continue readingEducation is Key in MIT’s New Five-Year Plan for Action on Climate Change
Yesterday 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 readingMIT’s Mars Experts are Giddy about the Planet’s Water Discovery (Boston.com)
This week’s announcement by NASA confirming liquid water flowing on the surface of Mars is big news. Several MIT faculty who study Mars shared their thoughts with Boston.com’s Eric Levenson: “I’m excited…
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