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🔥 What does 100 calories really look like? Hint: It's fiery!
Watch a burst of energy—97 nutritional calories of it—come alive as 25 mL of isopropyl alcohol combusts in this striking demonstration.
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How ready is your organization to govern generative and agentic AI? Learn a new framework from MIT Sloan’s Jeffrey Saviano in a live, 90-minute workshop Thursday, Oct. 22, at noon ET. Register:bit.ly/477FJjV
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Your dedication and commitment to learning is terrific. We'd love to hear how Open Learning has helped. bit.ly/4v4YK08
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Senior engineer Badri Ratnam has taken over 40 online courses from MIT Open Learning since 2012.
MITx Courses in physics, mechanical engineering, materials science, and more have helped Badri advance his education and career and explore topics of interest.
Read his story on MIT Learn: bit.ly/3Nfz29b
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Free returns are not free. 📦
MIT research scientist Eva Ponce breaks down the hidden operational, financial and environmental costs of hitting “return” in a new Open Seminar episode.
Watch on MIT Learn: bit.ly/4ipuGJn
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Go deeper with these supply chain courses on MIT Learn:
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Senga Technologies CEO June Odongo saw potential in electrical engineer Cynthia Wacheke, who had no computer science background. Odongo used MIT OpenCourseWare to build a bridging course. Wacheke is now a full-time software engineer.
Visit MIT Learn to start your own learning journey: learn.mit.edu
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“Problems of the world don’t have labels.”
Dimitris Bertsimas, vice provost for MIT Open Learning, on why you should never stop learning.
Watch the full “Beyond Biology” episode on MIT Learn. learn.mit.edu/podcast/114927…
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What do a researcher at the South Pole, a high school student in Peru, and MIT faculty have in common?
They're all part of our community, and they've all been featured in our monthly newsletters.
Each issue brings you the latest from MIT Open Learning: inspiring learner stories, breakthrough innovations, free courses, and fresh ideas that challenge how we think about teaching and learning.
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Science or art? These images on display at the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research are both.
Learn about three winners of the Image Awards, established to recognize and display extraordinary visuals produced by life sciences and biomedical research at MIT.
Plus, explore more learning moments on MIT Learn: learn.mit.edu
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When a university needs to train 15,000 students in AI fast, you adapt. Namibia University of Science and Technology did.
Over 1,100 people moved from zero AI skills to confident practitioners in six months. Free resources. Strategic focus. Institutional change.
Read the full story on MIT Learn: bit.ly/3SyELK5
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What does changing your point of view reveal?
MIT chemistry instructor David Grimes walks through how chemists shift perspective to understand materials.
Want to keep learning? head to learn.mit.edu
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Day 2 at #OEGlobal2026: What happens when MIT Open Learning meets Wikipedia?
Curt Newton and Peter B. Kaufman of MIT Open Learning joined Wikipedia’s Andrew Lih to share how they’re bringing MIT course materials to the places people already go to learn. In just a few months, more than 1,500 MIT images have been added to Wikimedia Commons, and they now appear in articles across 51 language editions.
The takeaway from the room: Open knowledge grows when more people help share it.
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MIT professor Chris Capozzola opened OE Global this morning with a reminder that open education grows stronger with every person who contributes to it. #OEGlobal
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A keynote that reminded us why open learning matters. Thank you, @sirjoshbennett, @mit professor of literature and distinguished chair of the humanities, for kicking off @openedglobal.
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Not ready for a full course? You can still learn from MIT experts.
Podcasts, open seminars, two-minute videos, documentaries, and articles. Here are five ways to learn on MIT Learn: bit.ly/4y9fIvM
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Paula Hammond arrived at @MIT at 16. Now she is Dean of the MIT School of Engineering.
Watch our new short film spotlighting her life and career: bit.ly/4xIn4ql
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Is AI governance slowing your organization down?
@MITSloan senior lecturer Jeff Saviano says good governance is actually an accelerator, not the brakes. Yet only 39% of Fortune 100 boards have any form of AI oversight.
Read the full guide to see what a strong framework includes and how to build one in 5 steps: bit.ly/4xXES0o
Is governance helping your team move faster, or holding it back?
#AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #Leadership
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MIT Open Learning is proud to co-host #OEGlobal26 with @OpenEdGlobal and the Massachusetts Open & Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council.
In-person spots are sold out, but you can still be part of it. Register to join online from anywhere in the world, October 7 to 9.
The global open education community returns to the Samberg Conference Center at @MIT in Cambridge, MA, for the first time since 2011, in the same year MIT Open Course Ware, part of MIT Open Learning, turns 25. Join 170+ sessions from presenters in 28 countries.
Register for online access: conference.oeglobal.org
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Other sports already have it. Automatic strike zones in baseball. VAR in soccer. Sensor tech in tennis. So where's the tech for the National Basketball Association (NBA)?
Jadal Williams, a PhD student at MIT Sports Lab, is answering that question. His research shows how tracking data, sensors, and video can help referees make split-second calls with more accuracy and less bias.
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