Bridging the Digital Divide
Duyen Nguyen | MIT Open Learning Myanmar’s education landscape is changing, thanks in large part to the efforts of the Tekkatho Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that uses digital technologies to…
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The MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy Provides New Path to MIT
Online 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 readingIn the Spirit of Open
By Sarah Hansen, OCW Educator Project Manager OCW is participating in Open Education Week 2016 (March 7-11)! We’re sharing a video to introduce you (and your teaching colleagues around the world)…
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 readingShh! (But We Need Your Help!)
Image by Shreyans Bhansali Dear Friends of OCW, MIT OpenCourseWare is celebrating our 15th anniversary this year – and we need your help! To celebrate, we’re creating a “surprise” thank…
Continue reading#AllAboutOpen: Our OCW Educator Twitter Chat
As part of Open Education Week, Open College at Kaplan University (OC@KU) and the Open Education Consortium (OEC) hosted a 24-hour Twitter event, #AllAboutOpen. We participated in the lively discussion last…
Continue readingLearn, Cure, Fuel, Make: MIT launches “Solve” (MIT News)
MIT launches “Solve” to galvanize action on solving the world’s great challenges Leaders to gather for keystone event at MIT next October Technology Review | December 12, 2014 MIT will…
Continue readingPromoting Open Education Around the World (Whitehouse.gov)
“Because we know that education is a cornerstone for progress…we’re going to do more to help citizens in other countries, especially students, access the incredible online educational tools and resources…
Continue readingMOOCs Won’t Replace Business Schools — They’ll Diversify Them (Harvard Business Review)
We know MOOC learners are diverse. Is the same true for those taking MOOC business courses? Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania analyzed data from the students who took business…
Continue readingQueen Rania Foundation Launches Edraak, a MOOC Portal for the Arab World (edX blog)
Queen Rania Foundation Launches Edraak, a MOOC Portal for the Arab World Anant Agarwal, edX CEO | 05.19.2014 This past November, we were honored to host Her Majesty Queen Rania…
Continue readingOCW is Always Open, Here When You Need It Most.
OCW launches our Spring Fundraising Campaign today. Here’s why you should support it. Dear Friend of OCW, OCW is always open. Here when you need it most. Please support OCW. Whether…
Continue readingOpen Access Textbooks: Libraries Test a Model for Setting Monographs Free (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
Free online textbooks are among the most popular and highest impact open educational resources. (The overwhelming response to this list of OCW’s online textbooks has made that clear to us!) …
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