Enabling advanced studies in Turkey with MIT OpenCourseWare
About two years ago, a group of medical students at Ege University Faculty of Medicine in Turkey began meeting to study single variable calculus. None of the students had taken a course in this subject...
View ArticleResearch, education, and connection in the face of war
When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Tetiana Herasymova had several decisions to make: What should she do, where should she live, and should she take her MITx MicroMasters capstone...
View ArticleDemocratizing education: Bringing MIT excellence to the masses
How do you quantify the value of education or measure success? For the team behind the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society’s (IDSS) MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science (SDS),...
View ArticleLearner in Afghanistan reaches beyond barriers to pursue career in data science
Tahmina S. was a junior studying computer engineering at a top university in Afghanistan when a new government policy banned women from pursuing education. In August 2021, the Taliban prohibited girls...
View ArticleQ&A: Introducing Axim Collaborative, a new MIT-Harvard online ed venture
MIT and Harvard University are teaming up on a new online education initiative: Axim Collaborative, a venture designed to make learning more accessible, effective, and relevant so that learners can...
View ArticleHelping to fill in gaps in urology research for female patients
There were early signs that Nicole De Nisco ’07, PhD ’13 might become a scientist. She ran out of science classes to take in high school and fondly remembers the teacher that encouraged her to pursue...
View Article“A whole world of potential learners and potential knowledge to gain”
When Aya Khalifa came to MIT from Egypt for her master’s degree in chemical engineering, she adapted well to a new educational system thanks to class 10.MBC (Math Boot Camp for Engineers). This online...
View ArticleTeen uses calculus learned through MITx to better understand his cancer...
When Dustin Liang was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in June, the cancer consumed his life. But despite a monthlong hospital stay, aggressive chemotherapy treatments, and ongoing...
View ArticleMIT Bootcamps enables aspiring innovators to find solutions that improve the...
Since its launch on the heels of the Entrepreneurship 101 massive open online course, MIT Bootcamps has inspired thousands of global innovators to search for solutions to meaningful problems, including...
View Article“MIT can give you ‘superpowers’”
Speaking at the virtual MITx MicroMasters Program Joint Completion Celebration last summer, Diogo da Silva Branco Magalhães described watching a Spider-Man movie with his 8-year-old son and realizing...
View ArticleEntrepreneur creates career pathways with MIT OpenCourseWare
When June Odongo interviewed early-career electrical engineer Cynthia Wacheke for a software engineering position at her company, Wacheke lacked knowledge of computer science theory but showed...
View ArticleHow free online courses from MIT can “transform the future of the world”
From full introductory courses in engineering, psychology, and computer science to lectures about financial concepts, linguistics, and music, the MIT OpenCourseWare YouTube channel has it all —...
View ArticleMIT Emerging Talent opens pathways for underserved global learners
Two ambitions drive Eric Tuyizere: advancing his technological skills and following his passion for entrepreneurship. In July 2023, when he discovered that MIT’s Emerging Talent program was launching...
View ArticleHow a quantum scientist, a nurse, and an economist are joining the fight...
A trip to Ghana changed Sofia Martinez Galvez’s life. In 2021, she volunteered at a nonprofit that provides technology and digital literacy training to people in the West African country. As she was...
View ArticleMIT OpenCourseWare “changed how I think about teaching and what a university is”
Bernardo Picão has been interested in online learning since the early days of YouTube, when his father showed him a TED Talk. But it was with MIT Open Learning that he realized just how...
View ArticleDimitris Bertsimas named vice provost for open learning
Dimitris Bertsimas PhD ’88 has been appointed vice provost for open learning at MIT, effective Sept. 1. In this role, Bertsimas, who is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management...
View ArticleHow MIT’s online resources provide a “highly motivating, even transformative...
Charalampos (Haris) Sampalis was well established in his career as a product manager at a telecommunications company in Greece. Yet, as someone who enjoys learning, he was on a mission to acquire more...
View ArticleMIT OpenCourseWare sparks the joy of deep understanding
From a young age, Doğa Kürkçüoğlu heard his father, a math teacher, say that learning should be about understanding and real-world applications rather than memorization. But it wasn’t until he began...
View ArticleImproving biology education here, there, and everywhere
When she was a child, Mary Ellen Wiltrout PhD ’09 didn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a K-12 teacher. Growing up in southwestern Pennsylvania, Wiltrout was studious with an early...
View ArticleTeen uses pharmacology learned through MIT OpenCourseWare to extract and...
Tomás Orellana, a 17-year-old high school student in Chile, had a vision: to create a kit of medicinal plants for Chilean school infirmaries. But first, he needed to understand the basic principles of...
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