Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds ESP & OpenCourseWare Highlights for High School June 5, 2007

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds ESP & OCW Highlights for High School › About OCW & Highlights for High School › Pretty pictures › Where ESP comes in › Proposed Plan

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds About MIT OpenCourseWare › MIT OpenCourseWare  Free and open educational resource (Syllabi, lecture notes, videos, psets, exams, Java applets…)  No credit, degrees, or faculty access  million visitors/month (including ~10,000 HS students)  Publishing 1800 th course in November › OCW Highlights for High School  “Gateway drug:” showcases OCW’s rich, interesting, level-appropriate gems  Not a separate site so much as a detailed guide to existing OCW content  3 main components: 1)Intro courses (traditional and non-, including “real” prereqs) 2)AP + Engineering content mapping 3)ESP!

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Criteria -- some combo of: Not too hard (e.g. no advanced diffEQ) Interesting/inspiring Rich, not bare, content Useful for study

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Other Highlights Sections… › Competitions 2.007, 6.270… › Labs 7.02, 5.310, 8.01X… › Video Demonstrations Lewin, Sadoway, Drennan wacky lecture video excerpts… › Other Resources for High School Link to MIT Outreach Website › High School MIT ESP!

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds Where ESP Comes In › Faculty advisory board really motivated to include great ESP content › Focus on “long” courses (HSSP, Junction)  “Short” courselets (Splash) might come later › Goal: ~ 5 really excellent long courses by November › Will likely have funding for some video capture

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds ESP & OCW: Working Together › What OCW can do for ESP:  Free publicity for ESP  Recruit teachers to participate  Take care of permission forms, IP concerns  Type up notes, help organize materials for teachers  Build actual site  Coordinate AV – will likely have funding for some video capture  Minimize extra work for teachers and directors › What ESP can do for OCW  Identify teachers to recruit, and help contact them  Integrate OCW content-capture into program training, info, reminders  Help remind teachers to deliver content, and recruit students to take notes  Enjoy fame and (less likely) fortune, plus warm ‘n fuzzy contributing feeling

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds Key Dates › Fri, June 15OCW funding meeting: YES/NO on ESP › Wed, June 20Kayla leaves (mostly) for CTY – Chris stays › July 1 – Aug 19Summer HSSP › July 9 – Aug 16Junction › Late AugustChris metamorphoses back into MIT student › Late NovemberOCW 1800 Event + Launch of Highlights for HS

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds What Now › Feedback, questions, brainstorming › Make sure everyone’s on board › Figure out summer HSSP and Junction courses/instructors to target for inclusion (see current ideas)current ideas › Develop clear proposal for June 15 OCW funding meeting › Work on integrating OCW into program info and training

Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds What ESP OCW has so far… › Low-level recruitment by Nelson and Kayla › Current directory… Current directory  Green = Great, very confident of securing enough material  Yellow = Probably too hard / too incomplete right now  Red = Subject not appropriate / too hard / too incomplete