Your OpenCourseWare Newsletter | January 2023 
A Resolution to Never Stop Learning
The word “Resolutions” is spelled out using letter titles. Three post-it notes are below that and they read 1) Never stop learning 2) eat more vegetables 3) exercise more

How well are you sticking to your New Year’s resolutions? Although many people find the new year a good time to start fresh or make a change in their lives, we know that many of these resolutions fall by the wayside pretty quickly.  There is one resolution that we hope you can maintain; that is the goal to never stop learning.  OpenCourseWare can help you by providing free and openly available course materials from over 2,500 classes at MIT. You can also check out our YouTube channel for hundreds of free videos from MIT instructors. From math and science to linguistics to history, OCW has you covered.  

Chalk Radio Podcast
A vintage poster from the 1950’s, that draws a drawing of a turtle with a helmet on. The words read “Bert the Turtle says Duck and Cover.”
Credit: Image posted by James Vaughan on flickr. License: CC BY-NC-SA 
We are excited to share the first two episodes of Season 4 of our podcast. The Greatest Existential Threat with Prof. Robert Redwine and Dr. Jim Walsh is a sobering look into nuclear weapons and the necessity of educating today’s college students about the potential of nuclear Armageddon. Don’t let the weighty topic deter you from listening. It’s truly fascinating and eye-opening to listen to these experts discuss their work.

In Well-being is the Goal with Prof. Frank Schilbach, listen to MIT Prof. Frank Schilbach help us reframe our traditional understanding of economics. Explore the ways in which rationality fails as a model for human behavior and uncover the psychological factors that influence people's choices which can lead to often irrational decisions. Listen to this episode if you wish to learn how you can become more psychologically informed in your choices. 
New Courses

21A.461 What is Capitalism?  

This class addresses the question “what is capitalism?” from a social scientific point of view, rather than a classical economic one. 

Algebra I Student Notes 

These notes, which were created by students in a recent on-campus 18.701 Algebra I class, are offered here to supplement the materials included in OCW’s version of 18.701

Algebra II Student Notes 

These notes, which were created by students in a recent on-campus 18.702 Algebra II class, are offered here to supplement the materials included in OCW’s version of 18.702.   

Thermodynamics and Climate Change 

In this high school-level class, you will learn the three laws of thermodynamics, explore concepts like entropy and enthalpy, and investigate the causes and effects of global warming from a thermodynamics perspective.   

21A.303J The Anthropology of Biology 

This course applies the tools of anthropology to examine biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological enterprise, biodiversity conservation, pharmaceutical bioprospecting, and synthetic biology. 

Nancy’s Brain Talks 

Professor Nancy Kanwisher uses a brain imaging method called fMRI to study the human brain. Her website, Nancy’s Brain Talks, is a collection of short videos that explore the different scientific techniques used to study the human mind and brain. You do not need any background in the field to understand the talks.

Open Education Global
Curt Newton, Sarah Hansen, Andreia Inamorato, and Chris Capozzola post in front an MIT Open Learning sign.
Meeting at MIT Open Learning (left to right): Curt Newton (MIT), Sarah Hansen (MIT), Andreiá Inamorato,  OEGlobal) and Christopher Capozzola (MIT). Credit: Image by OEGlobal CC-BY 

In December, the new Executive Director of Open Education Global, Andreiá Inamorato met with members of the MIT OpenCourseWare team to learn about each other’s organizations and find common ground. Learn more about the meeting and our collaboration, including work on the Community College Consortium for OER.    

MIT Open Learning Salon
Headshots of Mary Ziegler and Yvonne Ng with the words “Accessibility in Open Education”

Join Online Accessibility Program Manager, Mary Ziegler, to learn about how open education is made more accessible and inclusive. This virtual event will be held on Thursday, February 2 at 1:00 EST.  It is free and open to the public.  

Learn more about the event and register.  

Here are 5 Reasons to Support the Next Generation of OCW, read more on the OpenMatters blog. 
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