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In 2007, MIT OpenCourseWare introduced a site called Highlights for High School that indexes resources on the MIT OCW applicable to advanced high school study in biology, chemistry, calculus and physics in an effort to support US STEM education at the secondary school level. In 2011, MIT OpenCourseWare introduced the first of fifteen OCW ...
This organization organized volunteers to translate foreign OpenCourseWare, mainly MIT OpenCourseWare into Chinese and to promote the application of OpenCourseWare in Chinese universities. In February 2008, 347 courses had been translated into Chinese and 245 of them were used by 200 professors in courses involving a total of 8,000 students.
MIT Open Learning is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) organization, [1] [2] headed by Dimitris Bertsimas, [3] that oversees several MIT educational initiatives, such as MIT Open CourseWare, MITx, [4] MicroMasters, [5] MIT Bootcamps [6] and others.
OpenStax's stated mission is to create professional grade textbooks for the highest-enrollment undergraduate college courses that are the same quality as traditional textbooks, but are adaptable and available free to students. [116] Other initiatives derived from MIT OpenCourseWare are China Open Resources for Education and OpenCourseWare in ...
He retired on May 15, 2023 after giving his final Linear Algebra and Learning from Data [6] lecture at MIT. [7] Strang's teaching has focused on linear algebra which has helped the subject become essential for students of many majors. His linear algebra video lectures are popular on YouTube and MIT OpenCourseware.
It works as software (currently a set of Debian packages) [2] that makes a machine a thin client, that will download educational applications from the MIT servers on demand. Project Athena was important in the early history of desktop and distributed computing. It created the X Window System, Kerberos, and Zephyr Notification Service. [1]
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