| Your OpenCourseWare Newsletter | March 2023 |
|
In a few sentences, Sarah Hansen, our favorite podcast host, sums up, not just the purpose of the Chalk Radio podcast, but OCW’s mission as well. Sarah, along with OCW Director Curt Newton and Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning Chris Capozzola, were guests on the “OEG Voices” podcast produced by Open Education Global (OE Global). Together with Una Daly, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources and Alan Levine, Director of Global Community at OE Global, they talked about the ways in which OCW fits into the global landscape of the OER community.
Listen to the podcast and don’t forget to scroll to the bottom of the show notes to read inspiring quotes about OCW and Open Educational Resources (OER). |
|
| Credit: Photo by Will Francis on Unsplash |
|
Episode 4: Opening Computer Science to Everyone with Chancellor Eric Grimson
Chancellor Eric Grimson engages novices in learning computer science, opening the field to everyone and empowering learners to cultivate their curiosity. Prof. Grimson is also the instructor of the wildly popular course Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python.
Episode 5: Communication is the Whole Game with Paige Bright and Prof. Haynes Miller
Third-year MIT student Paige Bright interviews Professor Emeritus Haynes Miller about teaching mathematics—and the central role of math communication (spoiler alert: it’s the whole game!).
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. |
|
| Credit: Photo by Nicole Baster on Unsplash |
|
Thank you to all who participated in our edit-a-thon during Open Education Week. We added 40 new resources to our document about curation resources on the intersection between culturally responsive teaching and open educational resources (OER). This event was a collaboration between MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), participating Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).
Were you not able to attend? The document is still available for you to work on at your convenience.
Visit the Google Doc on culturally responsive teaching and OER. |
|
| Credit: Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash. |
|
Kanji Learning Any Time, Any Place for Japanese V: This resource aims to enhance students’ learning of kanji by providing a series of video lectures that cover the kanji characters in Tobira lessons 1–5. The video lectures not only teach how to write kanji but also provide stories behind the kanji characters.
21L.021 Comedy: Comedy, that most elastic literary and performance mode, skewers artifice, topples authority, and reverses expectations, not with the fatal outcomes of tragedy but with laughter and festivity. This class examines both deep roots and current forms of comedy, with a particular focus on comic insubordination.
18.S191 Introduction to Computational Thinking: This class uses revolutionary programmable interactivity to combine material from three fields – Computer Science + Mathematics + Applications – creating an engaging, efficient learning solution to prepare students to be sophisticated and intuitive thinkers, programmers, and solution providers for the modern interconnected online world. |
|
| Additional Publications on OCW |
|
The MIT Governance Lab: The MIT Governance Lab (MIT GOV/LAB) is an applied research group and ideas incubator that aims to improve democracy and governance by changing practices around corruption, government accountability, and citizen's voices.
Ethics of AI Bias Video: This video aims to delve into the human problems brought out by issues in artificial intelligence, specifically with respect to bias. It is suitable for classroom use or as a standalone video for those who wish to understand the issue more deeply than is conventionally covered.
The Roosevelt Project: This project looks to combine the legacies of these three titans of American history, including Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt, to develop policy priorities and an action plan that will enable us to move beyond the false choice of economic growth or environmental security. |
|
“Introducing Interventions that Help Online Learners: Q&A with Heeryung Choi, Digital Learning Postdoctoral Associate”
Read more about how Heeryung Choi went from a “not-so-successful online learner” to creating interventions that help online learners.
"6 Tips for Creating a Strong Corporate Learning Culture in 2023”
Learn more about how creating a culture of learning in the workplace can directly impact a company’s bottom line. |
|
Thank you to everyone who donated to OpenCourseWare during this year’s MIT 24-Hour Challenge! You and your contribution make it possible for us to share the latest educational resources from MIT with learners and educators worldwide, freely and openly. Thank you for your generosity!
Missed the Challenge, but still want to support OCW? |
|
| We want to hear from you. How can MIT OCW help your transition back to class? Write to us at ocw@mit.edu with questions or suggestions about how we might support you on your learning or teaching journey. |
|
|
| More free resources from MIT are available at: |
|
|
| | | | |
|
