A New Model for Open Sharing

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OpenCourseWare Secondary Education
ESP Meeting February 13, 2007
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1. The Big Idea
2. The Opportunity
3. The Goals
4. Key Components
5. The Approach
6. Benefits
7. 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

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The Big Idea 1550 Courses

• Syllabus
• Lecture notes
• Problem sets
• Exams
• Reading lists
• Simulations
• Video lectures

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The Big Idea - Growth in Access
Total Visits to MIT OCW Content
Approximately 10K high school students per month
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The Opportunity

• 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

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The Goals

• Provide better access to relevant OCW materials,
  organized for high school students
• Publish materials developed by MIT students for
  high school students

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Key Components Expected by November 2007
Proposed

• 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

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The Approach

• 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

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
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Benefits

• 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

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Next Steps

• 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

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Thank you Contacts Dan Carchidi,
carchidi_at_mit.edu Or Kayla Jacobs,
kayla_at_mit.edu [phone]
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