MIT OpenCourseWare

A free and open online publication of educational material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum, ranging from introductory to the most advanced graduate courses. On the OCW website, each course includes a syllabus, instructional material like notes and reading lists, and learning activities like assignments and solutions. Some courses also have videos, online textbooks, and faculty insights on teaching.

Knowledge is your reward. There's no signup or enrollment, and no start or end dates. OCW is self-paced learning at its best.

Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or simply a curious person that wants to learn, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) offers a wealth of insight, inspiration, videos, and a whole lot more!

Get the full picture on the OCW website at ocw.mit.edu.

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We are committed to providing free, high-quality educational resources for all, and we want to hear from you about how we’re doing! Something you love about MIT OpenCourseWare? Anything you’d like to see improved? Please tell us in this 5 minute survey – responses are anonymous. Read more about the MIT OpenCourseWare Learner Survey in this Open Matters blog post.

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▷ MIT professor Andrew W. Lo tackles retirement planning with ChatGPT, healthcare, & the effect of human behavior on financial markets in this episode of the Chalk Radio® podcast (with VIDEO!)

#Finance #Economy #ChatGPT #RetirementPlanning #AI #Healthcare #StockMarket #Recession #OER #HumanBehavior

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New course! 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀

Prof. Jon Gruber explains microeconomics as the study of individuals and firms who make themselves as well off as possible in a world full of scarcity. He covers core concepts such as supply and demand, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics.


#IntroCourse #Microeconomics #SocialScience #Economics #IntroEconomicsCourse #IntroMicroeconomicsCourse #SupplyAndDemand

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Will you join in on the celebration and help OpenCourseWare continue sharing MIT’s curriculum freely and openly with anyone who wants to learn? You and the millions of people like Sebastian who use OCW are at the heart of our mission to share MIT knowledge with the world. A gift, in any amount, helps keep us going.

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▷ Professor David Autor explains his biggest AI worries, the greatest upside scenarios, and how he believes we should be approaching AI as a tool, from our friends at the MIT CSAIL Podcast.

‪@MITCSAIL‬ #AI #ComputerScience #MIT ‪@mit‬

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New course! 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆

Prof. Yael Tauman Kalai explains the evolution of proofs in computer science, the power of interactive proofs, multi-prover interactive proofs, and probabilistically checkable proofs. She also shows how to use cryptography to convert these powerful proof systems into computationally sound non-interactive arguments (SNARGs).

#SumCheckProtocol #Cryptography #InteractiveProofs #Engineering #ComputerScience #ElectricalEngineering #Probability #SNARGs #CryptographicProtocols

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Psychologist Bia Adams discovered a passion for computational neuroscience thanks to MIT's open-access educational resources on MIT OpenCourseWare & MITx. ‪@mit‬ ‪@MITOpenLearning‬ ‪@MITxVideos‬

Read her full story on MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/forever-grateful-mit-open-learni…

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"𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴..."

Sujood Khalid Eldouma and her classmates at the university in Khartoum used MIT OpenCourseWare lecture videos as the basis of a group learning experience, and now she's laying the groundwork for a much bigger, future project: helping to rebuild Sudan’s educational and scientific infrastructure.

#MIT #DataScience #ElectricalEngineering ‪@mitreact805‬ #OpenLearning ‪@MITOpenLearning‬ #Sudan #Programming #Math #Mathematics #Podcasts #Podcast #ChalkRadio

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👀 Hooked on this video about AI, LLMs, and finance with prof. Andrew Lo...

#LLMs #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Finance #Economics #Analysis #RiskManagement #FinancialAdvice ‪@MITCSAIL‬

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