Star Professor Lewin

Have a look at this beautiful story from NYTimes on how MIT’s OCW program has made an international star out of Physics Professor H.G. Lewin. Gives me hope, when a Physics professor is celebrated rather than the empty-brained celebrities discussed on PopSugar.

Tutoring Social Network

As you know, I am very interested in online education. This morning, a news item from Techcrunch caught my eye: a social network for finding tutors. In parallel, another news item in EETimes also caught my eye: MIT puts all its courses online. I work with the MIT OCW consortium, and have had a number

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