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 youโ€™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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On the MIT Learn podcast, ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜Œ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜“๐˜ช๐˜ง๐˜ฆ, host John Harrold talks with MIT entrepreneur Joe Hadzima about how products go from ideation, to discovery to market, and how new companies actually get built. learn.mit.edu/video/117253/engineering-innovation-โ€ฆ

View all episodes โžฉ learn.mit.edu/video-playlist/115475/science-of-eveโ€ฆ

3 days ago | [YT] | 256

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แ… Is multitasking a myth?

Professor Nancy Kanwisher explores the limits of human attention and cognition through the โ€œtoaster modelโ€ of mental processing and explains how the brain processes different types of information in parallel. ๐Ÿง 

View the full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4a0W...

View the class: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

5 days ago | [YT] | 1

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แ… Is the NFL a cartel? #TBT

Economist Jonathan Gruber explains how the NFL operates as a legal cartelโ€”selling national broadcast rights as a single entity, limiting competition, and driving up costs for viewers.

#NFL #Football #Sports #Microeconomics #Economics #MIT #Competition #Cartels #Netflix #AntiTrust

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 62

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โ–ท Introducing The OCW Update, a quick recap of OCWโ€™s most recent releases.

Is there a course YOU'D like to see? Let us know in the comments! (No promises, but as always we'll do our best ๐Ÿ˜Š)

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 138

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"I think it's in all of our best interests..."

Khan Academy founder Sal Khan discusses his initial reaction to the announcement of MIT OpenCourseWare, and its connection to Khan Academy in this extended footage of his interview from the documentary โ€œThe Courage to Be Open: MIT OpenCourseWare and the Democratization of Knowledge.โ€

#MIT #KhanAcademy โ€ช@khanacademyโ€ฌ #OpenEducation #DemocratizationOfKnowledge #OpenCourseWare #IndependantLearner

1 month ago | [YT] | 182

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"In some low-income communities, people spend... up to 20% of their income on the lottery."

MIT economist Jon Gruber breaks down risk aversion, the psychology behind gambling, and what it means for public policy.

#TheLottery #Gambling #Economics #Microeconomics

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 118

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โ–ท System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World

#TBT This one-day workshop from 2021 explores systems interactions in the real world, providing an introduction to the field of system dynamics, and previews more in-depth coverage available in MIT Sloan courses like 15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics, 15.872 System Dynamics II, and 15.873 System Dynamics for Business and Policy.

View the full playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

1 month ago | [YT] | 46

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New course! ๐—•๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฆ๐˜†๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€

Prof. Robert Townsend synthesizes the computer science technologies underlying cryptocurrency, blockchain, tokenization, platforms, and computational algorithms with the economics tools of contract theory, mechanism design, general equilibrium theory, and monetary theory.


#SocialScience #Economics #FinancialEconomics #Blockchain #FinancialSystems #Cryptocurrency #Tokenization #Algorithms #ContractTheory #FreeCourses #MIT

2 months ago | [YT] | 801

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A new podcast from our friends at MIT CSAIL!

In this inaugural episode of ๐—•๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฎ, Senior Research Scientist David Clark revisits the early days of the Internet, when a handful of researchers were trying to solve what seemed like an impossible problem: getting computers to talk to one another.

โ€ช@MITCSAILโ€ฌ โ€ช@mitโ€ฌ #Podcast #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Internet

2 months ago | [YT] | 43

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โ–ทThe History of Nuclear Power

Professor R. Scott Kemp explains the historical discovery of nuclear energy, from its stellar origins to the development of reactors after WWII. He also highlights dual-use dangers, secrecy, politics, and how military and political imperatives locked in light-water reactor technology.

View the full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

#Nuclear #NuclearPower #Energy #NuclearReactors #IntroCourse #MIT #FreeLectures

2 months ago | [YT] | 100