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How do new technologies impact your open practices and approaches? 🪁 #OEGlobal26 Track Spotlight: Exploring Emergent Technologies and the Future of Openness If you’re working with tools that shape human connections, creativity, and curiosity — we want to hear from you. 🗓 Submit by March 30 Add yours 👉 twp.ai/9PbEyd #OEGlobal26 #EdTech #AIinEducation

Happy Pi Day everyone! How many digits can you recite from memory? (Image by Mykl Roventine on flickr. CC-BY-NC-SA)

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The clock is ticking on the MIT 24-Hour Challenge. ⏳ For the past 5 years, Riley has used @MITOCW to master computer science while managing a chronic illness. Now, he's ready to launch a career as a software engineer. 💻 Your gift tonight doesn't just support a website; it supports life and career transformations. We need 39 more donors by 11:59 p.m. EST to unlock $20,000 for learners like Riley everywhere. Every gift — no matter the size — gets us closer. If you've been waiting for the right moment to give, this is it. Be the one to tip the scales: bit.ly/4s2lGfG

We’re more than HALFWAY through the MIT 24-Hour Challenge! 🌓 So far, 168 people have stepped up to support MIT OpenCourseWare. We need to reach 400 donors by midnight EST to unlock an additional $20,000 for open education. Why does it matter? Ask Freesia. She used OCW in an isolated town in Australia to teach herself physics at 15. Today, she’s a startup founder. 🚀 As Freesia says, “Knowledge is in the palms of the hungry.” Give now to help us keep those palms full. ➡️ giving.mit.edu/24hc-ocw @MIT_alumni

✨ #OEGlobal26 Track Spotlight: (Re)Inventing our Shared Global Vision Together How might we re-imagine open policies, pedagogy, licensing, publishing, and data to solve real-world challenges? Share your perspective. Your practice. Your solutions. Your questions. 🗓 Submit by March 30 Add yours 👉 twp.ai/9PbEwh #OEGlobal26 #OpenEducation #FutureOfEducation

Hundreds of thousands of learners. Millions of lives changed. One 24-hour challenge. 🏆 Today is MIT’s giving day. In the next 24 hours, your gift to @MITOCW will help amplify MIT’s life-changing, society-advancing knowledge to every corner of the world! 📚✨ Make your mark: giving.mit.edu/24hc-ocw @MIT_alumni #MIT24 #OCW #EducationForAll #OpenLearning

Gain a forward-looking take on what’s next for the open education movement in this open conversation on 3/12 at 10AM. “The Power of Free Knowledge: How MIT Open Learning is Shaping Tomorrow’s Open Education Landscape” with Dana Doyle and Curt Newton. Hosted by Yvonne Ng Register here to ask your questions: bit.ly/40gykLR

New podcast episode! Host Sarah Hansen sits down with the extraordinary science photographer Felice Frankel to talk about AI, misinformation, and what it means to create trustworthy images in science. Watch here: bit.ly/4d8WKOX

Join us for an open conversation on 3/12 at 10AM about “The Power of Free Knowledge: How MIT Open Learning is Shaping Tomorrow’s Open Education Landscape” with Dana Doyle and Curt Newton. Hosted by Yvonne Ng Register here to ask your questions: bit.ly/40gykLR

Want to help us open MIT to the world? Mark your calendars for the MIT 24-Hour Challenge on March 12. If 400 people donate to MIT Open Learning, @MITOCW, or @MITxCourses on this giving day, a generous alum will contribute $20,000 to our efforts to make MIT knowledge accessible for all. ✅ Save the date: bit.ly/3OruFYW ✅ Donate on March 12: bit.ly/3ZXHNHS We're counting on you!

How is MIT shaping the future of open education? Don’t miss this Open Conversation with Dana Doyle (MITx) and Curt Newton (OCW) as they share decades of insight and impact in open learning. Happening March 12, 10–10:45 AM EST. Register here: bit.ly/40gykLR

Link to the student's blog about creative assignment questions: mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/a-…

The work that happens at MIT is serious, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun. An MIT student recently blogged about creative and funny assignment question he received. Lots of nerd humor! Link is in the comments. 🤓 Two of the examples come from the course 6.1200J Mathematics for Computer Science. You can check it out on OCW: tinyurl.com/4htejb7f

Do you want to use MIT OpenCourseWare on your mobile phone even when you’re offline? We’re pleased to announce an initial release of this new feature, MIT OCW To Go! Simply open ocwtogo.mit.edu in your phone's browser and start learning! Perfect for limited internet access, mobile plans with data caps, and travelers, we offer a select list of fully downloadable materials for mobile offline use. Check it out and let us know what you think!

Wanna help everyone get educated? Join @MITOCW for the MIT 24-Hour Challenge on March 12! On this special day, our giving day, you’ll have twenty, twenty, 24 hours to support OCW’s mission of sharing @MIT knowledge freely and openly. RSVP: bit.ly/3OruFYW

Bravo! This is so well done. A great video about MIT's Paula Hammond.

Excited for OEGlobal 2026? We are! Join Open Education Global (OEGlobal), MIT Open Learning, and the Massachusetts Open & Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council (OLERAC) for a hybrid conference in Cambridge, MA, USA + online, Oct. 7–9. 🎓 2026 Theme: Come invent with us! Innovating open practices to uphold and uplift knowledge as a public good. The website is live with everything you need to start planning your experience. Get started ➡️ twp.ai/9PaycQ #OEGlobal26 #OpenEducation #PublicGood #HigherEducation #OpenLearning #OnlineLearning #LifelongLearning

Sea levels are rising, and the evidence is hard to miss: 🛣️ Flooded roads 🌱 Saltier soils 🌊 Vanishing shorelines At Waquoit Bay on Cape Cod, “ghost trees” stand where saltwater has pushed inland, killing trees as high tides creep higher. These skeletal forests now stretch along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, a sign of climate change transforming landscapes. Continue learning: bit.ly/4aO7fEx

When MIT OpenCourseWare collaborates with community college faculty, what do we learn about the power of Open? In a recent set of articles on the Open Matters blog, we recently outlined the principles that drive our collaborations program and the parameters of a recent project with @mcccd and @canyons. Read the article ➤ bit.ly/4tRcU5x and tune in to the Chalk Radio episode ➤ bit.ly/4rwX9z0