By Janet Pinto, Chief Academic Officer, Curriki
The MIT Collection on Curriki (available here) contains 49 relevant topics in Calculus, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Most of the material is selected to support the College Board Advanced Placement Program offering college-level examinations to high school students.
The content has been selected from freshman-level courses at MIT specifically to support the needs of high school students interested in the Advanced Placement exams for Calculus, Physics and Biology. There are 21 calculus topics, 18 physics subject areas, 9 areas of biology and 1 chemistry lab section.
Examples of topics included are:
- Calculus – Computation of Derivatives
- Physics – Waves
- Biology – Heredity
“The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone.”
Dick K.P. Yue, Professor, MIT School of Engineering
MIT OpenCourseWare has been offered since 2002, and covers an extensive range of topics, primarily in science and engineering. These are free and open materials that span across the complete MIT curriculum. As of 2014, according to the MIT OpenCourseWare web site:
“2250 courses published
1 billion page views and 170 million visits.
100 courses have complete video lectures.
900 older versions of courses have been updated.”
Check out the MIT Collection at Curriki, particularly for your more advanced students. And for yourself and for your really advanced students, browse the MIT OpenCourseWare content!
