| Your OpenCourseWare Newsletter | June 2023 |
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Last week an OCW staff member found this very relevant message in her fortune cookie! This made us think of you: curious, smart, and someone who definitely knows how to acquire knowledge. We appreciate your continued interest in and support of OpenCourseWare. We aim to support you on your learning journey.
You’ll find there is a lot to explore on the homepage of our website, which is continuously updated to reflect our newest offerings. - Check out our newly updated Featured Courses, those that we want to highlight on topics such as crypto, chemistry, and programming, among many others.
- Discover our Course Collections, groups of courses gathered together by topic. We have collections in Africana Studies, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment & Sustainability, Programming, and Transportation
- Learn about our new courses that have recently been added to OCW.
Visit the OpenCourseWare website today! |
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| Prof. Gil Strang's Last Linear Algebra Lecture |
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| Credit: Image courtesy of Gil Strang |
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| The most talked about event in our office happened on May 15, when renowned MIT Professor of Mathematics Gil Strang, taught his last-ever class on linear algebra. In addition to a packed classroom, the event was live-streamed on YouTube, where thousands of people tuned in.
Read all about Prof. Strang and watch his last lecture. |
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| Aloud: YouTube Video Language Dubbing |
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Hello! ¡Hola! Olá!
OpenCourseWare teamed up with YouTube to pilot a new program called Aloud, which automatically transcribes a video, reviews and edits the transcripts, and finally translates and dubs the video into Spanish or Portuguese. This program will allow OCW to reach even more learners across the world. You can check out the results in our course 18.S190 Introduction To Metric Spaces taught by undergrad Paige Bright. Simply select the audio track by clicking on the settings in the lower right corner of the video. |
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| HBCU+MERLOT+MIT OCW Collaboration |
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| Members of HBCUs, MERLOT, and OCW met on the MIT campus. |
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| Throughout the year, OCW has been collaborating with several Historically Black Universities (HBCUs) and MERLOT, a repository of open educational resources (OER). The goal of the collaboration is to work together to increase the capacity of HBCU faculty to use OER, which deeply benefits the students at the partnering universities. One tangible outcome of this collaboration is a curated list of OpenCourseWare courses that cover topics in Africana studies. To learn more about the Cultural Collections, please visit the HBCU Affordable Learning Community Portal. |
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| Science, Math, Technology, and Engineering
18.S190: Introduction to Metric Spaces: This course provides a basic introduction to metric spaces. It covers metrics, open and closed sets, continuous functions (in the topological sense), function spaces, completeness, and compactness. Full video lectures are available, which have also been dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese!
18.408 Topics in Theoretical Computer Science: Probabilistically Checkable Proofs: In this course, we will present the theory of Probabilistically Checkable Proofs (PCPs),and prove some fundamental consequences of it as well as more recent advances.
18.218 Topics in Combinatorics: Analysis of Boolean Functions: In this course, we will mostly be studying Fourier analysis of Boolean functions, which is a useful tool in theoretical computer science, combinatorics, and more.
8.513 Modern Quantum Many-body Physics for Condensed Matter Systems: This graduate-level course covers the quantum effect in solids. It focuses on the concepts and physical pictures behind various phenomena that appear in interacting many-body systems
LL EduCATE: Introduction to Engineering Concepts: “Introduction to Engineering Concepts"is a lesson that will introduce you to several STEM fields and help you build core skills that are helpful across many engineering disciplines.
Biology Teaching Assistant (TA) Training: The MIT Biology Department supports TAs’ teaching by providing a specialized Teaching Assistant (TA) training program in Biology Pedagogy, for which TAs can earn a training certificate.
Humanities and Social Sciences
MIT-Haiti Initiative / Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti: The mission of the MIT-Haiti Initiative is to promote active learning in Kreyòl so that Haitians can have universal access to quality education in the language that most of them speak at home.
Other Resources You Might Be Interested In
7.03x Genetics on edX: In this course, you will engage in the biology of cells of higher organisms.
7.06x Cell Biology on edX: In this course, you will learn the principles of genetics with application to the study of biological function at the level of molecules, cells, and multicellular organisms, including humans.
6.s980 Machine Learning for Inverse Graphics: This course covers fundamental and advanced techniques in this field at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and geometric deep learning |
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| Learn from the MIT faculty elected to The National Academy of Sciences in 2023 |
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| From left to right (top): Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan; (bottom) Dina Katabi, Gregory Stephanopoulos. Photos courtesy of the researchers. |
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The National Academy of Sciences has elected five MIT faculty members for their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan, Dina Katabi, and Gregory Stephanopoulos were recognized by their peers with one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in their career.
You can learn from these distinguished researchers! Check out their free courses. |
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