MIT's Academic Media Production Services joins the Office of Digital Learning
Effective July 1, Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), the MIT Libraries' unit responsible for video production, distance education and MIT TechTV, will become part of the Office of Digital...
View ArticleOCW, MITx provide Myanmar student rigorous, high-quality educational...
In a recent speech, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel laureate and Myanmar's opposition leader, brought international attention to the difficulties faced by students in her country. She described how a series of...
View ArticleMITx course aims to start worldwide conversation about global architecture
Mark Jarzombek, MIT Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, is already deeply familiar with the concepts behind global architecture—he has authored and co-authored two highly regarded...
View ArticleMITx philosophy course hits the hard questions
Philosophy has a tough job. Because it concerns itself with matters that don’t fit neatly into the concrete categories of modern science, one is often testing the outer limits of language and thought....
View ArticleMITx introduces ‘XSeries’ course-sequence certificates on edX
MITx, the massive open online course (MOOC) effort at MIT, has announced new certificates for completion of sequences of related modules or courses on the edX platform. The sequences, called “XSeries,”...
View Article2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
Beginning this fall, students everywhere will have an opportunity to better understand one of the classic experiences of an MIT undergraduate, when edX releases 2.03x Dynamics on Oct. 28. Mechanical...
View ArticleMIT OpenCourseWare marks 10th anniversary
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), one of the landmark projects that helped spark the open education movement, marks the 10-year anniversary of the site's launch today. On Oct. 1, 2003, the OCW site officially...
View ArticleNaval aviator powers up his education with MIT OpenCourseWare
Daryle Cardone is a naval aviator and the commanding officer to a squadron of early warning aircraft that operate from the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Known as the Bluetails, Cardone’s squadron...
View ArticleLetter regarding preliminary report of the Institute-wide Task Force on the...
The following email was sent today to the Institute community by MIT President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT community: I write to share the preliminary report of the Institute-wide Task...
View ArticleReif releases preliminary report of the Institute-Wide Task Force on the...
President L. Rafael Reif has released the preliminary report of the Institute-Wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education — a document that, following months of engagement with the MIT community,...
View ArticleMIT and Harvard release working papers on open online courses
MIT and Harvard University today announced the release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. Run in 2012 and 2013, the courses analyzed drew upon diverse...
View ArticleMITx and HarvardX release MOOC datasets and visualization tools
Following the recent release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses from Harvard and MIT offered on the edX platform, researchers have made available an initial dataset of...
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