MIT OpenCourseWare offers free online courses in mechanical engineering, political science, and music history taught by this year’s fellows. (Originally published on Medium on March 22, 2024, by Katherine Ouellette)…
Continue reading[Note: This post originally appeared on the MIT Open Learning website.] MIT OpenCourseWare offers a variety of freely available, open-access MIT course materials on race and the history of race…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director In this post, we continue our Greatest Hits series, highlighting here the most visited OCW courses from the departments of Political Science and Global…
Continue readingOne of our favorite things at MIT OpenCourseWare is to shine a spotlight on fascinating subjects and great teachers that might otherwise escape notice. We’ve written before on the strength of MIT’s School…
Continue readingThe shockwaves emanating from Washington DC in recent weeks may seem unprecedented, at least in recent US politics. But look back in time, and consider the history of other countries…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Back in November, we told you about a novel history course in which MIT students built a printing press out of a single beam…
Continue readingToday (Monday February 8, 2016) is the Lunar New Year celebrated in many East Asian cultures. In the cycle of 12 zodiac animal signs, this is the Year of the Monkey. Reputed to be…
Continue readingOn April 19th, Freddie Gray died after suffering an acute spinal injury while he had been in police custody. The details are still unknown about what had transpired. His arrest…
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