Statistics and Visualization for Data Analysis and Inference

Dr. Ed Vul and Dr. Mike Frank

A whirl-wind tour of the statistics used in behavioral science research covering topics including: data visualization, building your own null-hypothesis distribution through permutation, useful parametric distributions, the generalized linear model, and model-based analyses more generally. Familiarity with MATLAB®, Octave, or R will be useful, prior experience with statistics will be helpful but is not essential. This course is intended to be a ground-up sketch of a coherent, alternative perspective to the "null-hypothesis significance testing" method for behavioral research (but don't worry if you don't know what this means).

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Digital Lab Techniques Manual

Dr. Kimberly Berkowski, Dr. Sarah Tabacco, Eileen Huang, and Aayesha Siddiqui

The "Digital Lab Techniques Manual" is a series of videos designed to help you prepare for your chemistry laboratory class.

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Evolution of Physical Oceanography

Edited by Bruce A. Warren and Carl Wunsch

The authors of Evolution of Physical Oceanography were asked to describe the evolution of their subject over the history of physical oceanography, and to provide a survey of the state-of-the-art of their subject as of 1980. Many of the chapters in this textbook are still up-to-date descriptions of active scientific fields, and all of them are important historical records.

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Continuum Electromechanics

James R. Melcher

This textbook provides a foundation in electromagnetics, particularly conversion of energy between electrical and mechanical forms. Applications include transducers, rotating machines, Van de Graff machines, image processing, ferrofluids, liquid crystal displays, electron beams, and electrokinetic and electrocapillary interactions in biological systems.

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Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Problem Solving Approach

Markus Zahn

This text is an introductory treatment on the junior level for a two-semester electrical engineering course starting from the Coulomb-Lorentz force law on a point charge.

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Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction

Jerome H. Saltzer and M. Frans Kaashoek

This textbook about computer systems takes an unusual and unique approach by exploring fundamental concepts that are common across operating systems, networks, database systems, distributed systems, programming languages, software engineering, security, fault tolerance, and architecture. The book is published in two parts. Part I, with chapters on systems, abstractions, naming, clients and services, virtualization, and performance, is a traditional printed textbook published by Morgan Kaufman. Part II, with chapters about networks, fault tolerance, atomicity, consistency, and security, plus a glossary, reading list, and problem sets, is available here.

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Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4) Summer Schools

Various faculty of MIT and other institutions

Each year, GEM4 presents a two-week summer school on a particular focus topic, such as Infectious Diseases or Cancer. These sessions educate researchers and graduate students in the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics and its applications in medicine, and facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians.

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Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS)

Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS) is a free repository of video modules for high school math and science classes. The ultimate goal is to gather a large body of content generated by gifted volunteer teachers from around the world.

Resources currently available on the site were provided by MIT faculty and PhD students, and include resources in mathematics, physics and biology. The website is growing, and over the coming months there will be BLOSSOMS video modules created by educators in Jordan and Pakistan - all available in English.

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Understanding Lasers and Fiberoptics

Shaoul Ezekiel

This brief video course is designed for engineers, scientists, medical personnel, managers, and others who work with lasers and/or fiberoptics, or who anticipate working with lasers and/or fiberoptics, yet have little or no background in laser or fiberoptic basics.

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Adaptive Antennas and Phased Arrays

Dr. Alan J. Fenn

The 16 lectures in this course cover the topics of adaptive antennas and phased arrays. Both theory and experiments are covered in the lectures. Part one (lectures 1 to 7) covers adaptive antennas. Part two (lectures 8 to 16) covers phased arrays. Parts one and two can be studied independently (in either order). The intended audience for this course is primarily practicing engineers and students in electrical engineering. This course is presented by Dr. Alan J. Fenn, senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Calculus

Gilbert Strang

Published in 1991 and still in print from Wellesley-Cambridge Press, the book is a useful resource for educators and self-learners alike. It is well organized, covers single variable and multivariable calculus in depth, and is rich with applications.

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Introduction to MATLAB

Yossi Farjoun

The course, intended for students with no programming experience, provides the foundations of programming in MATLAB®. Variables, arrays, conditional statements, loops, functions, and plots are explained. At the end of the course, students should be able to use MATLAB in their own work, and be prepared to deepen their MATLAB programming skills and tackle other languages for computing, such as Java, C++, or Python.

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Engineering Design Instructional Computer System (EDICS)

Seichi Tsutsumi, David Gordon Wilson, Ernesto Blanco, Woodie Flowers, et al.

EDICS, or Engineering Design Instructional Computer System, is an interactive multimedia program started in 1981, which consists of three chapters on bearings, rotors and cylinders, lets students with little background in engineering learn about procedures on a computer with text, graphics, animation, sound and diagrams.

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Applied Geometric Algebra

László Tisza

László Tisza is Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT, where he began teaching in 1941. This online publication is a reproduction the original lecture notes for the course "Applied Geometric Algebra" taught by Professor Tisza in the Spring of 1976.

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MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR)

MIT Sloan Faculty

MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is a collection of teaching materials, including case studies, simulations, deep dives, and industry, business and country overviews that MIT Sloan provides as a free teaching resource open and available to the world.

Case Studies

Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching

The MIT Teaching and Learning Laboratory

This handbook includes 16 Guidelines on Learning based on the research literature on student learning and accepted good teaching practice, that inform the teaching at MIT. Each Guideline is explained with appropriate quotes and there are links to examples of the guideline in action.

The handbook is an adaptation of the "Guidelines on Learning that inform teaching at the University of New South Wales" and it's associated Toolkit. This has now been expanded as a generic "Guidelines on Learning that inform teaching" website with exemplar examples and written in a format to encourage other universities to draft their own set of guidelines and examples.

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