Highlights for High School
Now students in Germany are using Highlights for High School!
This year, MIT students spent two weeks with the Weird Science Club at Lichtenbergschule in Darmstadt, Germany. Through the MIT-Germany's new Highlights for High School Initiative, MIT students taught math, physics, biology, and chemistry using OCW's Highlights for High School.
Adriana Vazquez, Mathematics '11, said, "To share the knowledge that I have acquired at MIT with students barely younger than me and inspire them to explore their potential and curiosity was great."
Find out how you can be inspired at Highlights for High School
Featured Resource
Two free courses published on MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) site have each received more than one million total visits since publication. The OCW site was launched by MIT in 2002, and the two courses, 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics and 18.06 Linear Algebra, were among the first courses made available.
Both courses have averaged roughly 600 visits per day from learners and educators around the world, making them the most visited courses on the OCW site. Professor Walter Lewin, who teaches 8.01, and Professor Gilbert Strang, who teaches 18.06, have both become web celebrities because of the video lectures and other course materials they have shared through OCW.
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Views from Visitors
"I discovered OCW a few days ago and since then I have been reading insatiably and learning so much. I am reading more from the Sloan School of management and discovering so many concepts (mainly related to negotiations and bargaining, game theory). I am really impressed with the quality of the courses and how they foster critical thinking. I really can't describe what having access to these resources is doing for me. It also says a lot about the standard of your institution. Thank you. I am very grateful."
- Rachelle, Dominican Republic
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