Your OpenCourseWare Newsletter | May 2022 

Supplement Your Summer with MIT OpenCourseware

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Here in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is upon us! Depending on where you live, school is already finished for the year, or will be shortly. Summer learning loss, or the summer slide, is a well-known phenomenon, where students lose knowledge and skills learned during the school year. But summer doesn’t have to mean a break from learning! Head on over to OpenCourseWare for free learning materials to cover a range of interests, from coding to literature, AI to climate change.  Visit now
Recent Publications
We are back to publishing new content after a brief hiatus while we set up our new website and publishing platform! Enjoy our most recent publications. 

18.s097 Introduction to Metric Spaces 

This course provides a basic introduction to metric spaces. It covers metrics, open and closed sets, continuous functions (in the topological sense), function spaces, completeness, and compactness. Be sure to check out the Instructor Insights!  

AI 101 

In AI 101, MIT researcher Brandon Leshchinskiy offers an introduction to artificial intelligence that’s designed specifically for those with little to no background in the subject.   

18.01x Calculus I: Single Variable Calculus 

Master the calculus of derivatives, integrals, coordinate systems, and infinite series. This is a course that is part of MIT’s Open Learning Library, which is free to use.  You have the option to sign up and enroll in the course if you want to track your progress, or you can view and use all the materials without enrolling. 
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Chalk Radio Podcast
Season 3, Episode 8: Finding Expertise Everywhere with Prof. M. Amah Edoh 
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Chalk Radio is happy to welcome back Prof. M. Amah Edoh to the podcast. In this episode, she talks with host Sarah Hansen about transitional and reparative justice, and her daring experiment to open the conversation to the public.  

Listen now or wherever you get your podcasts. 

Open Matters Blog
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Learn more about the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning education might look a lot more human.  Meet Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and Prof. Jacob Andreas and Harini Suresh of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. They teach students to recognize how deep learning systems can replicate and magnify the biases inherent in the data sets that are used to train them.  

Read the blog post.  
Interview with OCW's Director
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We want to share this insightful interview with OCW’s fearless leader, Curt Newton about his role in transforming OpenCourseWare and his work around climate change. 

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