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7 free online courses, resources from MIT professors elected to AAAS

7 free online courses, resources from MIT professors elected to AAAS

Learn from faculty members Anne Whiston Spirn, Gareth McKinley, and Nasser Rabbat.
From left: Anne Whiston Spirn, Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape; Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor; and Gareth McKinley, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation.
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7 free online courses, resources from MIT professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Professors Anne Whiston Spirn, Gareth McKinley, and Nasser Rabbat are among six MIT faculty members recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences — one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Did you know you can learn for free online from these powerhouse educators and researchers?

Explore courses and resources available through MIT Open Learning:

  • Ecological Urbanism: Read Spirn’s online publication, which weds the theory and practice of city design and planning, as a means of adaptation, with ecological insights.
  • Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry: Explore photography with Spirn as a disciplined way of seeing, a research method, and a medium of inquiry and expressing ideas.
  • The Once and Future City: Join Spirn as she investigates what shapes a city, how its history influences future development, how cities are changing, and more.
  • Macromolecular Hydrodynamics: Explore physical phenomena in polymeric liquids undergoing deformation and flow with McKinley, as well as kinematics and material functions for complex fluids, techniques of viscometry and rheometry, and linear viscoelastic measurements for polymeric fluids.
  • Advanced Fluid Mechanics: Discover the principal concepts and methods of fluid dynamics with McKinley.
  • Historiography of Islamic Architecture: Tune into Rabbat’s critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly texts, museum exhibitions, and architectural projects.
  • Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures: Get an introduction of the history of Islamic cultures through its religious architecture, spanning 14 centuries and three continents — Asia, Africa, and Europe.
  • The Architecture of Cairo: Embark on a visual tour of a quintessential Islamic city.

Take a deeper dive into fluid mechanics with these course materials:

This article was adapted from MIT News. Read the original story.

The courses and resources listed in this article are available through MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx, both part of MIT Open Learning. OpenCourseWare offers free, online, open educational resources from more than 2,500 courses that span the MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum. MITx offers high-quality massive open online courses adapted from the MIT classroom for learners worldwide.

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