A decade after MIT began to put its teaching materials and lectures online via the OpenCourseWare platform, the university has announced that it will leverage these materials to provide an online ...

This month marks the tenth anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare, the university's initiative to provide free and open access to its core academic content -- the syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Krishna Rajagopal is a professor of theoretical physics at MIT who studies the very first moments of the newborn Universe. Since 2017, he has been MIT’s Dean for Digital Learning, leading MIT ...

For more than six decades, Gilbert Strang stood at a chalkboard at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught linear algebra, a subject many students find abstract and difficult to grasp at ...

Gilbert Strang is a quiet man with a rare talent: helping others understand linear algebra. He’s written a half-dozen popular college textbooks, and for years a few hundred students at the elite ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. On April 4th, 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of ...

While it is becoming increasingly common (and easy) for lectures to be placed online as videos or podcasts, such media can often be very limited in their utility. For example, I missed a lecture last ...

Many of the students in Rebekka L. Stone’s biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from high school. Some are struggling to master basic English, much less the more ...