{"id":510,"date":"2007-11-29T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T11:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/29\/mit-opencourseware-now-for-high-school\/"},"modified":"2007-11-29T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T11:02:45","slug":"mit-opencourseware-now-for-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/11\/29\/mit-opencourseware-now-for-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT OpenCourseWare – now for high school"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked about MIT’s OpenCourseWare<\/a> project last year in my eTech presentation.\u00a0 This is a great resource if you are interesting in the content of a college course.\u00a0 MIT has placed many (I have heard people say “all”) courses online\u00a0and has made them available to the general public for free.<\/p>\n

Last year, I needed a quick thermodynamics refresher, so I downloaded the class notes from a Physical Chemistry course.\u00a0 The PDF’ed lecture notes were clear with pictures, equations and definitions.\u00a0 There were also assignments and\u00a0a complete syllabus\u00a0in case I wanted to work a few problems or take the whole course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, everything was there except the faculty person.\u00a0 MIT makes these courses available because they know students out there want the information in the courses, but may not have the chance to take a course at MIT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today the MIT president announced<\/a> that a\u00a0new high school portal called Highlights for High School is being developed.\u00a0 This initiative will give high school students and teachers resources for advanced courses.\u00a0 It turns out that about 15,000 high school students are currently downloading MIT course materials each month.\u00a0 It was speculated that many secondary students do not have advanced course offering because of the reduction in funding of gifted and\u00a0talented programs.\u00a0 The Highlights for High School program is designed for these students.<\/p>\n

I like the motto of the program:\u00a0 Unlocking knowledge,\u00a0empowering minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked about MIT’s OpenCourseWare project last year in my eTech presentation.\u00a0 This is a great resource if you are interesting in the content of a college course.\u00a0 MIT has placed many (I have heard people say “all”) courses online\u00a0and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,340,17,11,2],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-online","tag-resources","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}