You Are Unstoppable

Your OpenCourseWare Newsletter | February 2023

You Are Unstoppable

“I can’t learn anything” are written on a piece of paper. A red pencil scratches out the apostrophe and the t in the word can’t, so that it reads “I can learn anything.”

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American author Zig Ziglar once wrote, “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” And as a fan of OpenCourseWare, we know you are determined to learn. Let us help you become unstoppable. As you know, OCW provides free learning materials from MIT’s courses. Although there is naturally a focus on the STEM fields, we also offer a wide variety of other topics like economics, global languages, architecture, and many more. We have over 2,500 courses represented, which you can access 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We firmly believe that with time and dedication, you truly can learn anything. Visit ocw.mit.edu today and start your journey to becoming unstoppable.

Chalk Radio Podcast

A Venn diagram: One circle is blue and the other circle is yellow. It is green where they overlap.

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Season 4: Episode 3: Seeing Green with Drs. Sandland and Chazot

What happens when you see yellow and I see blue? Together we see green. In this episode, we learn about diversifying materials science and improving the field. Dr. Jessica Sandland and Dr. Cécile Chazot, our guests for this episode, describe how the MICRO initiative recruits undergraduates from minoritized backgrounds to do impactful research remotely in collaboration with MIT researchers.

Listen to the episode.

Updated Course: Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC)

A person standing and a person sitting both look at a computer screen. Both of the people are wearing face masks

Credit. Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash.

SERC is an initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing which works to train students and facilitate research to assess the challenges and opportunities associated with computing. This site is a resource for SERC pedagogical materials developed for use in MIT courses. We’ve just added new materials from the past year to this collection.

Visit the SERC materials.

Around Open Learning

As you may know, MIT OpenCourseWare is part of a larger organization at MIT called Open Learning, which consists of a dozen or more groups and almost 200 people. We want to share some of the exciting work our Open Learning colleagues are doing.

Festival of Learning 2023

Earlier this February, Open Learning’s annual Festival of Learning was once again held on campus after a two-year hiatus.

See the keynote,2023 Festival of Learning: Keynote by Dr. Bror Saxberg .

MIT Professor Esther Duflo Honored

Although her research focuses on daunting issues such as global poverty, MIT Professor Esther Duflo never neglects to dedicate time to something else she finds just as important: mentoring her graduate students.

To mark her unwavering support, Duflo was recently honored as “Committed to Caring” for consistently propping up graduate students, and for helping them to thrive.

Read the MIT news story about Prof. Duflo’s award

Visit Prof. Duflo’s course “The Challenge of World Poverty” on OpenCourseWare.

Day of AI is Back!

Day of AI is back! K-12 educators can now run MIT RAISE’s free, hands-on artificial intelligence curriculum at any time. Day of AI offers a full school day’s worth of curriculum and activities for elementary, middle school, and high school students. The program is completely free and accessible to students and teachers of all backgrounds and abilities. No technology or coding experience needed.

Black History Month

Did you know that OpenCourseWare collaborates with several Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU) to create Open Educational Resources (OER)? Learn more about the HBCU OER Cultural Collection.

Support Free and Open Knowledge on Pi Day, March 14

We’re grateful that you’re part of our community. On Tuesday, March 14, we hope you’ll consider participating in the MIT 24-Hour Challenge, the global MIT community’s collective day of impact, by making a donation to OCW. A gift of any amount on March 14 helps OCW keep sharing knowledge from MIT freely and openly.

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