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By: Carolyn Tiernan | MIT Open Learning
How a love for math and access to MIT Open Learning’s online learning resources helped a Sudanese learner pursue a career in data science. Read more
By: MIT Open Learning
Empower young learners with skills in programming, app development, AI, and more through MIT Open Learning’s innovative, research-based programs. Read more
By: Anant Agarwal
Artificial intelligence has the same potential to revolutionize education by enhancing teachers’ capabilities and enabling them to tailor learning paths to individual students in ways we never thought possible. Read more
By: Mariah Rawding | MIT Open Learning
Twenty students explore design thinking at MIT, envisioning a better future for their communities. Read more
By: Marisa Demers | MIT Open Learning
As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program to help the West African nation thrive.  Read more
By: Peter Dizikes | MIT News
“Even at a surprisingly young age, kids have sophisticated knowledge of the grammar of sentences and can use that to learn the meanings of new words,” says Athulya Aravind, an associate professor of linguistics at MIT.  Read more
By: Katherine Ouellette | MIT Open Learning
MIT pK-12 at Open Learning co-created a secondary school learning architecture that’s available for adoption and adaptation by educational practitioners worldwide. Read more
By: Leda Zimmerman | D-Lab | Department of Mechanical Engineering
ASPIRE program brings MIT-style research, innovation, and entrepreneurship to Central America, sparking sustainable development by and for the people. Read more
By: Dylan Walsh
The biggest productivity gains were seen among recent hires and developers in more junior positions, who increased their output by 27% to 39%. More senior developers saw productivity gains of 8% to 13%. Read more
By: Brian Lombardo | Lemelson-MIT Program
Each team will each receive $7,500 in grant funding and year-long support to build a technological invention to solve a problem of their own choosing. The students’ inventions are inspired by real-world problems they identified in their local communities.