The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering 1800 full courses on-line to the public at no charge. In part the work of Professor Walter H.G. Lewin of MIT is the reason for the popularization ...

For the past four minutes, Walter Lewin has been laboring at the chalkboard, bent on conveying a point—or rather, a series of small, swift points, so close together they resemble a perforation. The 76 ...

Robyn Williams: Does putting fun into teaching physics work? Wally Lewin at MIT is convinced it does, hanging from pendulums and making big bangs. He now has 100 of his lectures on the internet...and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has removed a retired physics professor's lectures from an online learning platform because the school concluded he had sexually harassed a woman, university ...

Original Wu-Tang Clan member GZA (also known as “The Genius” or by his given name, Gary Grice) will visit Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in May to school students on how art and outer ...

The internet age has brought sexual harassment to the digital realm on a lot of platforms—social networks, dating websites—even online education. On the last point: Monday, MIT removed the popular ...

Over four decades at MIT, Walter Lewin got undergraduates excited about physics. Now his lectures are reaching millions of students around the world. If you know of any MIT alumni making a difference ...