We're thrilled that
@QSCorporate
ranked MIT as the world's top university for 2022-23! We're also thrilled that we can share MIT's top-ranked subjects with the world. Start learning today with courses from
@MITOCW
&
@MITxCourses
!
MIT Professor Gilbert Strang is one of the most recognized mathematicians in the world. Through
@MITOCW
he reaches millions around the world who watch his lectures online.
In 1994, MIT Black History Project founder Clarence G. Williams published "Technology and the Dream" one of the first major works to record the experience of black engineering students in North America. A free PDF download is now available from
@mitpress
:
20 years ago, MIT then-president Charles Vest announced the launch of
@MITOCW
, a pioneer in the
#OER
movement. Today, Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal says “It was the best thing MIT could have done at that moment for MIT and for the world."
At MIT, we always have an eye on the stars. To celebrate
#WorldSpaceWeek
, we’ve put together a list of free MIT resources you can access to explore the cosmos, right from your computer.
Want to learn more about anything from coding with Python to supply chain fundamentals to African art?
@MITxonedX
and
@MITOCW
offer materials and courses on all this for more–and you can access it all for free!
Full STEAM Ahead is a new website from MIT's pK-12 community and
@mit_jwel
, inviting kids, parents, and educators to discover remote learning resources for young and lifelong learners everywhere. Check back weekly for new activities:
#OneMIT
#MITFullSTEAM
"We want to make sure that knowledge isn't this thing we keep, but that people can take and do something with it—for their lives, for their enjoyment, for the fulfillment of their ambitions and dreams."
— Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning at MIT
Did you know that
@MITOCW
publishes free lectures from actual MIT courses? In celebration of OCW reaching 4 million subscribers on YouTube, here are the channel's top 5 most-viewed videos.
NEW! All of MIT’s professional offerings from all the different schools and departments in one place. Search courses and programs from Open Learning,
@MITSloanExecEd
,
@MITEngineering
,
@MITCSAIL
, & more! Find the right program for you:
How did
@CDecoders
head
@dagdevirencanan
transition to remote learning quickly, efficiently, and while helping maintain student well-being?
By establishing a culture of preparedness, organization, and structure–and by adding a few personal touches...
From professional programs and online courses for anyone anywhere, to a colorful history of nerdy pranks and Marvel superheroes, enjoy these fun facts about all things MIT.
Kicking off
#OnlineLearningDay
with a shout out to the eldest member of the MIT Open Learning family,
@MITOCW
! Since 2001, this pathbreaking group has been publishing virtually all MIT course materials online for anyone in the world to use. Explore now:
MIT Digital Learning Lab, a joint program between MIT Open Learning & MIT’s academic departments, promotes digital learning innovations to help learners on campus & online.
Join the DLL at
@IEEEorg
’s Learning with MOOCs conference:
"These days, [
@MITOCW
] feels natural; it is part of who we are. It is now woven into the fabric of MIT that when you teach here, you can share your materials with the world."
Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal talks w/
@Forbes
'
@artofinquiry
:
The MIT 2020 Commencement
#AR
app will let graduating students create a personalized 3D avatar, walk down Killian Court, and receive a diploma from President Reif. Learn more and sign up at
#MIT2020
Abigael Bamgboye logged more than 800 hours of online learning before completing her
@MITxCourses
MicroMasters Data & Economic Development Policy.
#MITBetterWorld
helps global learners like Bamgboye who seek focused, accelerated professional advancement.
Introducing the new Open Learning publication on
@Medium
! Read thought leadership from faculty and directors, learn about projects and news from across Open Learning, and find out how we’re working to transform teaching and learning across the globe.
Medical students at Ege University Faculty of Medicine (
@ilericalismalar
) are paving their own road toward doctoral-level studies—with
@MITOCW
as their main resource.
“When I saw the doctor draw a graph of my neutrophils, I thought you could apply a quadratic approximation to estimate my blood cell counts at a certain time.”
📈 17-year-old Dustin Liang used
@MITxCourses
' calculus to understand his cancer treatment.
Today = 314th day of the year = π... We ❤️ all things math! One of our favorite Math people is MIT's Gil Strang. After nearly 60 years of teaching at MIT, Strang surpasses 10 million views on OCW, earns top reviews for his teaching style...
With Alexa, YouTube recommendations, and more, kids today grow up surrounded by artificial intelligence. MIT researchers have designed an open-source
#pK12
curriculum to teach young students about ethics and the technology.
"As always, teaching & learning is what we do, together. Now we know that we can do it no matter where we are." Beautiful thoughts from Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal on what makes us
#OneMIT
. Happy First Day of Classes, everyone!
Since 2001, MIT has been committed to opening up access to its educational materials and resources to learners worldwide. On
#NationalOnlineLearningDay
, take one of these free, top-rated courses from
@MITOCW
,
@MITxonedX
, and more.
Earth Day is reminder that climate action needs to be made continually on big and small scales. Start making a difference today with these free resources from MIT,
@MITOCW
, and
@MITxCourses
.
For the last decade, MIT Open Learning has embraced its mission to transform teaching at MIT and around the world. Learners share their stories about the impact that our online courses and programs had on their lives.
MIT Open Learning offers free and lost-cost online
@MIT
courses. Start your graduate-level education today with these 8 subjects — all ranked highly by
@USNewsEducation
!
From jazz composition to rap theory with
@LupeFiasco
, the experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black Americans have shaped popular artistic movements across the world.
Learn more with free educational courses & videos from
@MIT
:
23 MIT educators were honored w/ Teaching with Digital Technology Awards, recognizing their ingenuity in using digital tools to better engage learners.
In an online celebration, awardees largely attributed their success to students' & colleagues' support:
Why celebrate
#InternationalPodcastDay
with one
#MIT
podcast when you could have them ALL? Our new webpage takes podcasts from around the Institute, gathering them in one place and updating daily. Find out more:
Did you know that MIT Open Learning has filmed more than 1 petabyte (that's 1 quadrillion bytes!) of instructional video?
More fun facts from
@techreview
:
Look who's featured on the MIT homepage today!
Over the past 20 years,
@MITOCW
has brought free MIT course materials to 210 million learners around the world.
The NextGen
@MITOCW
platform is mobile-optimized and features a streamlined content discovery experience, opening its library of free, Creative Commons-licensed materials to millions more learners and educators around the world.
How does MIT design its open online courses for a global audience? A new MITx guide examines learners’ motivations for enrolling and offers tips for designing your own online classes.
Whether you're a pK-12 educator, university faculty, a working professional, or a lifelong learner, we're here to help inspire your teaching & learning journey. Check out our new
@Medium
publication and discover how we're transforming education worldwide:
How can faculty, students, and TAs use Slack to improve teaching and learning?
@MITEECS
student Kevin Shao shares some takeaways from the latest
@MIT_xTalks
panel.
MIT was recently named
@TopUnis
' No. 1 institution worldwide for the 9th year running, with top rankings for teaching in 12 subjects!
Access
@MITxonedX
&
@MITOCW
courses + materials in these subjects to learn along, free of charge!
#OER
Cramming may help for next-day exams. But for long-term memory, spacing out study is what works. Open Learning VP Sanjay Sarma and his Grasp co-author Luke Yoquinto in
@washingtonpost
.
From courses in engineering, psychology, and computer science to lectures about finance, linguistics, and music —
@MITOCW
's
@YouTube
channel has it all.
Join 5 million learners around the world who are learning from
@MIT
educators for free!
"You can transform and reinvent yourself by the things that you learn, and ultimately that can help you become the best version of yourself or help you empower others with the knowledge that you’ve gained.”
Imagine a world where all your academic credentials could be verified and shared online. The international Digital Credentials Consortium aims to make that world a reality. Read more:
The 31 instructors honored with Teaching with Digital Technology Awards in 2020 represent the resilient, innovative, compassionate MIT community at its best. This year's awards take on a special significance in light of the impact of Covid-19. Read more:
MIT is proud to be part of a global working group to establish a new standard for issuing, sharing, and verifying academic credentials. Learn more about this exciting project:
“The fact that I can believe everything is possible and I can be anyone I want to be is mesmerizing. OCW gets the credit... it reshaped what I thought about the world and education previously.”
20 years in, learners share what
@MITOCW
means to them:
You don’t have to go to MIT to learn with MIT courses—
@MITOCW
&
@MITxCourses
bring MIT classes from the lecture hall to your device. Kickstart your learning this fall with these 11 intro courses:
MIT has been named the No. 1 university in America in Forbes’ 2022 top colleges ranking. “Forbes’ top colleges ranking spotlights schools that offer an excellent education at a great price, and graduate high-earners."
“For me, MIT went from just being a top tier school to an institution that was invested in spreading knowledge and empowering people who don’t necessarily have the resources.”
"Give people projects, challenges, ask them questions, get them into the questioning state of mind."
On
@cbcradio
's
@CBCQuirks
, Sanjay Sarma discusses how hands-on learning and "experiences that instill curiosity" are key to education transformation.
MIT-level courses don't just happen, they're designed. So how do you design online courses with the same rigor as in-person? MIT Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager
@drlukehobson
says to go beyond readings, discussion boards, and essays.
On this
#NationalRadioDay
, we'd like to thank the passionate
@MITOCW
professors who share their often-unconventional, always-inspired teaching insights on Chalk Radio. Host
@learning_sarah
interviews guests about their cutting-edge research and more!
Online learning is a vital resource for learners who lack access to in-person education. It can also be an innovative supplement to classroom learning. Hear how Sanjay Sarma reimagines education on the latest episode of Chalk Radio from
@MITOCW
.
“How do you upskill a workforce of 680k across diverse work roles, all echelons & at scale? This is an MIT-sized problem.
@USAF_AI
is tapping into the world-class work that Open Learning has been doing since 2013—democratizing education on a global scale."
“Everything I’ve done here so far, from the smallest to the biggest, from the trivial to the very sophisticated, has been eye-opening and mind-expanding.”
Learn more about
@LupeFiasco
’s experiences as an MIT MLK Visiting Scholar.
Are you a higher education instructor new to
#onlineteaching
? Check out the TeachRemote forum on MIT Open, where you can ask questions and share tips with colleagues at the Institute and beyond:
#MITDailyLearning
"These new AI systems could be used to support project-based, interest-driven creative learning experiences. But this will only happen if people make explicit, intentional choices to use the new tools in this way." —
@medialab
Prof.
@mres
,
@scratch
founder
The tools of disinformation are only growing more sophisticated. "Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes" from
@MITVirtuality
offers free resources to understand and navigate the world of media manipulation.
Here's my full story with
@jolingkent
about the new Russian influence operation targeting Ukraine with AI-generated faces.
It shows how Facebook and Twitter snuffed out a campaign that was all over the web.
It���s pretty good! You should read it.
At Open Learning, we're big fans of video games as teaching & learning tools. So to celebrate
#NationalVideoGameDay
, we've put together this group of resources to meet help meet your educational AND entertainment needs. Happy gaming! 🎮😁🕹️
#MITDailyLearning
Launched jointly from
@medialab
,
@mitopenlearning
, &
@MIT_SCC
, RAISE is a new MIT-wide initiative to bring ethical, equitable
#AI
education to all.
Discover research, learning resources at all levels, + how you can become a part of the
#MITraise
network:
Did you know MIT Open Learning opens up educational opportunities for learners across the globe — not just students on
@MIT
campus?
Discover how our courses, programs, and research transform teaching and learning through digital innovations.
Virtual identities, like characters in video games, have potential to shape “ideas about the world, which is why understanding the biases encoded in stereotypical avatars like those of fighting games is important,” the researchers argue.
Did you know that
@mitocw
has over 4.7 million
@YouTube
subscribers, making it the platform’s largest educational channel?
📹 Learn more fun
@MIT
facts:
“We need to fundamentally rework our understanding of education toward something like exercise. You’re never ‘done’ with going to the gym. We shouldn’t be ‘done’ with learning, either.” -Prof Sanjay Sarma
#MITJWELWeek
@mit_jwel
“How tragic will it be if we go back to classrooms that look like Zoom lectures? We’ll look at each other and go, 'This what we were yearning for?’"
More from Sanjay Sarma on how the future of education depends on not falling back into pre-COVID habits:
The intersection of teaching, learning, and digital technologies plays a crucial role in shaping the future of education. We asked MIT Open Learning experts to recommend their favorite books about pedagogical best practices based on cutting-edge research.
By identifying, testing, and implementing promising innovations, MIT Open Learning's Residential Education group aims to make it easier for instructors to change and evolve their learning materials.
Why workforce education helps your organization thrive: 1) Improves your organization’s ability to look toward the future; 2) Makes employees more productive; and 3) Increases internal mobility to retain employees longer.
If you ever wanted to learn computer science 💻 analytics 📈 computational thinking 🧠 data science 📊 biology 🦠 biochemistry 🧪 probability 🎲 microeconomics 💰 or circuits 🔄—try one of these top-ranked
@MITxCourses
from
@classcentral
!
If you're enjoying
@braveplanetpod
as much as we are, dive into these companion materials assembled by
@MITOCW
to help you learn more about AI, robotics, climate change, and other timely topics covered by host
@eric_lander
and his distinguished guests:
Learning happens at every stage of life. Wherever you are on your education journey, MIT Open Learning leverages technology and MIT knowledge in our resources and programs to meet you where you are.
WOW!
@MITOCW
's YouTube channel has hit 3 million subscribers! 🎊
So proud of the team for continuing to share MIT's course content to the world, and grateful to our global community of users for including us in their learning journeys. ❤️
Happy birthday to Margaret Hamilton! Want to follow in her footsteps? You can start by exploring
@MITOCW
's free, open course materials on software engineering:
And who knows? Maybe this one small step will lead to giant leaps for humankind... 🌜🚀
At 17, Fredric is the youngest student to arrive on campus to begin his DEDP Master’s
@MIT
. He was admitted after first proving himself through a series of rigorous online courses through a MicroMaster's program from
@MITxonedX
. His story:
Thousands of learners already know — anyone can access an MIT education with
@MITxCourses
. Try these popular online courses today!
⚙️ Machine Learning
💻 Computer Science & Programming
🧬
@MITBiology
🎲 Probability
🚚
@mitsupplychain
Fundamentals
Whether you're new to climate change or an experienced advocate, MIT has free high-quality materials to deepen your understanding about climate, energy, and solutions. Learn more at
@CambSciFest
this Thurs. with
@mit_esi
,
@MITOCW
&
@MITxCourses
!
As more employers institute remote work policies and classes are dismissed due to COVID-19 concerns, working parents may find themselves at home with their kids during the day. Here are the best free online learning resources for parents at home with kids:
📣 Teachers, bring AI literacy into your classrooms on
#DayofAI
! Sign up for free professional development workshops from
#MITRaise
, then use MIT’s hands-on AI curriculum with your students on May 13, 2022.
Want to put your best foot forward to change careers? Online learning is one of the easiest and most effective paths to sharpen your skills. Find the right online learning option for you with these 4 steps.
As we strive to open up MIT's teaching & learning knowledge to all, we're glad that
@MITOCW
&
@MITxonedX
MicroMasters® programs have been part of
@MIT_SHASS
' global engagement.
Read more about the impact of MIT's humanistic fields around the world:
Day of AI is back! For 2023,
@MitRaise
created new learning modules for all K-12 learners, now available to run at any time, in any increments. Educators—register for
#DayofAI
to access the curriculum & celebrate with classrooms around the world on May 18:
With a 650% increase in data science jobs since 2012, now is the time to familiarize yourself with data science. No matter your availability or budget, courses from
@MITOCW
,
@MITxCourses
,
@mit_react
, and MIT xPRO can fit your learning needs.
On
@MITOCW
, MIT lectures are brought from the classroom to your device. To celebrate 4 million subscribers on YouTube — the most subscribers for any .edu provider — here are a few favorite videos we consider “hidden gems.”
Don't miss our upcoming xTalk next Wednesday, October 7, with Sanjay Sarma and
@lukeyoquinto
! The pair will discuss their book, "Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn," and new perspectives on how to maximize learner potential. Find out more:
MIT OpenCourseWare offers a variety of freely available, open-access MIT course materials on race and the history of race relations in the United States.
Advanced chatbots could be used as powerful classroom aids that make lessons more interactive, teach students media literacy, generate personalized lesson plans, save teachers time on admin, and more.