OpenCourseWare Secondary Education
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OCW SE - The Motivation
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OCW SE - The Idea
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OCW SE - Discovery and Design
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OpenCourseWare (OCW) – What is it?
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A Web-based publication of
virtually all of MIT course content
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Open and available to the world
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A permanent MIT activity
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Features:
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Lecture notes
Syllabi
Assignments
Labs
Problem sets and solutions
Selected video lectures
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OpenCourseWare - Value and Impact
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1400 courses out of 1800
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Translations in more than a dozen languages (Spanish,
Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, Arabic…)
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More than 100 OCW projects underway at other universities
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MIT OCW Use
 71% of students
 59% of faculty
 42% of alumni
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Over 75% of MIT faculty have participated
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OCW SE — The Motivation
› American STEM degrees:
 1994-95 – 32%
 2003-04 – 27%
› Survey of university faculty in 2006 *
 32% thought HS students are “somewhat well prepared” for
college studies in mathematics and science
 5% thought HS students are “well prepared”
* Source: January 2006 survey from The Chronicle of Higher Education
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OCW SE — The Motivation
“When I compare our high schools to what I see when I’m
traveling abroad, I am terrified for our workforce of tomorrow. In
math and science our fourth graders are among the top students
in the world. By eighth grade, they’re in the middle of the pack.
By 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring near the bottom of all
industrialized nations.”
— Bill Gates, speaking in February 2005
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OCW SE — The Motivation
Thomas Magnanti (Chair)
Dick Yue
Kim Vandiver
Steve Lerman
Shigeru Miyagawa
Catherine Drennan
Eric Klopfer
Karl Reid
Anne Margulies
Dan Carchidi
Rana Banerjee
The Steering Committee
Dean, College of Engineering
Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Professor of Ocean Engineering / Dean for Undergraduate Research /
Director, Edgerton Center
Class of 1992 Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering/ Director,
Center for Educational Computing Initiatives/ Chair, OCW Faculty Advisory
Committee
Professor of Linguistics, Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and
Culture
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning/Director, Teacher
Education Program
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Assistant to the Chancellor
Executive Director, OpenCourseWare
Senior Publication Manager, OpenCourseWare
Research Analyst, OpenCourseWare
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OCW SE – The Idea
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Project to apply the OpenCourseWare model
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Focus on Mathematics, Science, and Engineering
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Target grades 7-12
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OCW SE – The Idea
OpenCourseWare SE IS NOT:
› A replacement for teachers or
teacher/student interaction
› Diploma granting
› A virtual middle or high school
OpenCourseWare SE IS:
› A Web-based publication of
exemplary math, science and
engineering resources for
Grades 7-12
› Open and available to the world
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OCW SE – The Goals
› Inspire students to pursue degrees, and eventually careers, in
STEM fields
› Prepare students to excel in STEM fields
› Provide materials and support for teachers that help them enrich
their science and math classes
› Provide resources and materials for students that help them to
more easily and deeply learn STEM concepts
Provide compelling content
and
create excitement and exuberance!
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OCW SE – Key Components
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30-50 math, science and engineering secondary education
courses
 Significant video component
 Innovative multimedia applications
 Hands on, project based learning
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Teachers in residence program with potential funding for
teacher sabbaticals
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Certificate programs in areas of science, math, and engineering
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National mentors corps, a la peace corps?
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OCW SE – Why MIT?
› MIT’s commitment to public service
› MIT branding and content for engineering and science
› Home of proven OCW concept
› Neutral convener
› History of educational impact in high school physics
 MIT and Physical Science Study Committee transformed high school
and college physics education in 1950s
› Significant commitment to K-12 Education
 High priority for MIT President
 Currently over 30 MIT K-12 programs
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Discovery and Design - Preliminary Findings
› Standards-based teaching and learning is the reality in today’s
schools
› Teaching is very textbook-dependent
› Little integration of concepts across STEM fields in grades 7-12
› Very little engineering presence in grades 7-12
› Many Web-based STEM resources are fragmented, difficult to use,
and/or not openly available
› Teachers don’t have the time to locate or aren’t aware of STEM
resources
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Discovery and Design - Design Considerations
› To complement MIT expertise, OCW SE will need to engage
experts in secondary education
› To inspire students, OCW SE should be inquiry based and show
the application of science and math in engineering
› To be useful to teachers, OCW SE must link to standards and be
both modular and comprehensive
› To be used by both educators and students, the OCW SE Web
site must be designed differently for each audience
› To make teachers aware of and able to use OCW SE, an active
and exhaustive outreach campaign is required
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Thank You!
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