MIT Extends OpenCourseWare to High Schools

Five years later, preliminary test the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open courses initiative, which is now the way into the secondary education and the implementation of this weeks "high school" and the purpose is to strengthen high school education stem, through free and in the process of opening up the material from the integrity of the curriculum and syllabus, video, handouts, and animation.

The openness of the initiative, announced in 2001 and first in 2002, is an effort MIT, the curriculum provided free of charge over the Internet. The purpose of these courses is not to grant degrees or certificates, their products available to the public interest. After five years, the initial pilot, including 50 courses open initiative, now includes more than 1,800 courses.

A calculus course of a new bright spot for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for the high school site, including handouts, samples were taken from the content of textbooks, sample problems and questions high school - also known as open-secondary education , or O CW selenium - is the first attempt on the part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, OCW secondary education and the first step in a broader plan for secondary education has been developing since 2006. University estimated that the focus of high school before the launch, some 10,000 teachers and 5,000 students to visit the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OCW Web site each month, even though it has not been tailored specifically for high school use. Now, with the new site, there are thousands of resources, designed only for high school teachers and students, including: 15000 handouts 1800 syllabus 2600 video, audio editing, animation and taken from the actual conditions, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology courses 9000 transfer 900 assessment.

Through high school, which have been organized into a format designed to make it more accessible, user and classification of secondary education, to cope with duck physics, biology and calculus courses.

Video demonstration of Newtons laws of motion on the high school site "As has been well documented, [the United States] need to invest more of secondary education, in particular in the dry areas. Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a leading institutions, science and technology have the responsibility to help solve this problem, "said Thomas Magnanti, the former president of the school projects in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Commission formulated a focus high school.

At the same time, highlighting the high school, the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, various types of other types of courses, including foreign languages, art, music, sports, social science and literature.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology currently has more than 40 kindergarten to 12 promotion programme in place. In the future, it plans to secondary education is likely to expand to include the establishment of a "secondary education tutor," and teachers and the establishment of a residential scheme, "the development of new courses and open-secondary education workers." Read more: high school MIT Open Course MIT

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