Friends of MIT OpenCourseWare, This April marks the 20th anniversary of OCW. For two decades you’ve learned with us, shared your stories with us, shared our resources with others, tuned…
Continue readingFor OCW, there is joy in helping people achieve their learning goals By Yvonne Ng | MIT Open Learning Every day at OCW, the team looks forward to creating, collaborating,…
Continue readingPlease join OCW Director Curt Newton on a free webinar, Monday March 4, 12:30-1:30 ET, for a tour through some recent highlights on MIT OpenCourseWare, and thoughts on its bright…
Continue readingBy Yvonne Ng We were thrilled to host Patrick Abeya as the grand prize winner of last Spring’s Be an MIT Student for a Day sweepstakes. Abeya’s day was jam…
Continue readingAs 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 readingPrashanth Venkataram and Maria Cassidy are MIT seniors, and they want to tell you about invisibility cloaks. Remember this scene? Here‘s their explanation of it! The Physics of Invisibility Cloaks…
Continue readingMIT OCW will be at the USA Science & Engineering Festival to share our site Highlights for High School, which got a facelift earlier this year. We’ll have magnets, bookmarks,…
Continue readingQuickWire: edX and Facebook Team Up to Offer Free Education in Rwanda The nonprofit online-learning organization edX will work with Facebook and two other companies to provide free, localized education…
Continue readingWorking with Facebook to Create SocialEDU The future of learning is social and edX is helping to build it in Africa. EdX is part of an exciting new pilot with…
Continue readingEarlier this year, the folks over at Open.Michigan launched a pilot program to crowdsource the translation of transcripts for some of their videos. The pilot focused on 31 health videos,…
Continue readingEngineering student Thaw Tar uses MIT digital learning resources to study underwater vehicle design. Mark Brown Office of Digital Learning In a recent speech, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel laureate…
Continue readingWith the support of our Next Decade Alliance member The Dow Chemical Company, we’ve recently published a great new set of chemistry video demonstrations. These Chemistry Behind the Magic videos…
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