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Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds

OpenCourseWare Secondary EducationESP Meeting – February 13, 2007

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering MindsOpenCourseWare Secondary Education 11OpenCourseWare Secondary Education

I. The Big Idea

II. The Opportunity

III. The Goals

IV. Key Components

V. The Approach

VI. Benefits

VII. Next Steps

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The Big Idea: What is OpenCourseWare?

MIT OpenCourseWare IS NOT:

MIT OpenCourseWare IS:

› An MIT education

› Intended to represent the interactive classroom environment

› Degree-granting

› A Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content

› Open and available to world

› A permanent MIT activity


The Big Idea – 1550 Courses

›Syllabus

›Lecture notes

›Problem sets

›Exams

›Reading lists

›Simulations

›Video lectures


The Big Idea - Growth in Access

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Approximately 10K high school students per month


›To provide high quality content to bright secondary school students organized around the AP curriculum

›To provide a gateway to MIT content for high achieving secondary school students

›To provide unique and challenging ESP content to bright secondary school students

The Opportunity


The Goals

›Provide better access to relevant OCW materials, organized for high school students

›Publish materials developed by MIT students for high school students


Key Components – Expected by November 2007

OCW Guided Walk Through

•Students led to specific OCW content using AP curricula as structure

•Calculus

•Physics

•Biology

•Chemistry

•Computer Science

•Engineering (non-AP structure)

Student Developed Materials

•SAT Prep

•AP Courses (Delve)

•HSSP

•Splash/SOW courses in areas such as Computer Science, Liberal Arts, Math, Science, Social Science

•Challenge: Contacting teachers, gathering content

High School Portal

Homepage


› Determine feasibility of OCW content in support of AP courses using quantitative and qualitative methods

› Examine depth and breadth of materials from SAT Prep and other ESP courses

The Approach

What Who

Recruit high school and MIT freshmen students

Map OCW content to AP courses

Rate relevance and depth of OCW content

Provide site design inputs

Examine depth and breadth of materials for 5 ESP courses

OCW staff

OCW staff, MIT students

High school students, MIT students, OCW staff

High school students, MIT students

OCW staff, MIT students


OCW High School Portal

› Potential for significant impact with low effort

› Leverages existing OCW and MIT student content

› First step toward larger OCW SE initiative

› Introduces MIT OCW to high achieving high school students

Benefits


› Do ESP instructors want their materials included in OCW SE? If yes…

› Identify most appropriate ESP courses for feasibility assessment

› Establish working arrangement – similar to MIT faculty?

› Report back on results of feasibility assessment

Next Steps


Thank you

Contacts:

Dan Carchidi, [email protected]

Or

Kayla Jacobs, [email protected]

(617) 253-7913

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