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Dear John,

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Please help us continue to create and share the open educational materials that broaden educational opportunities and change lives.

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Peer review! Hardly are those words out than a writing instructor’s heart starts to stir—but with joy or trepidation?
Peer review! That activity in which students review each other’s work and give each other feedback. It’s an essential writing skill, after all, being able to assess a piece of writing critically and offer suggestions for making it more effective without sending the author into a tailspin of despair.
It’s what every good editor does.

MIT’s Office of Digital Learning honored the winners of its inaugural MITx Prize for Teaching & Learning in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at the MITx Significant Interest Group event on Friday, May 19th. The award is part of the Institute’s continued effort to encourage the development of new MOOC methods and technologies. The MITx Prize for Teaching & Learning recognizes educators who have devoted themselves to better engaging learners around the world through digital classrooms.
> Read more about the award recipients

Did you know we have a group of courses on Highlights for High School created and taught by MIT students specifically for high school students? Created in 1957, the Educational Studies Program enables MIT students to share their knowledge and enthusiasm with local area students. We have 10 of these courses in STEM topics, as well as, in the humanities and social sciences. Most have full video lectures! Enjoy!
Engineering
Guitar Building
Audio and Speaker Electronics with “Meet the Instructor Videos”
Biology
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience with video lectures
Humanities and Social Sciences
Gödel, Escher, Bach with video lectures
Europe in Crisis: The World Wars in Europe
Leadership Training Institute with video lectures
Mathematics
Combinatorics: The Fine Art of Counting
Probability: Random Isn’t So Random with video lectures
Physics
The Big Questions with lecture videos
Excitatory Topics in Physics with lecture videos