Welcome 2025 with open learning

Is learning something new one of your goals for 2025? Or maybe New Year's resolutions aren't your thing? Either way, MIT Open Learning has you covered. With thousands of courses and learning materials from MIT — available for free — on our platforms, you can start your learning journey or pick up where you left off anytime. This week, learn more about some of our top-ranked and most popular courses.

Nine free courses from MIT ranked among most popular of all time

Class Central, which aggregates online courses from many providers, recently ranked nine MITx courses, part of MIT Open Learning, among its list of 100 top free EdX courses of all time.

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Jumpstart your learning in 2025 with 16 intro courses from MIT

Explore how memory works, whether AI can achieve consciousness, music recording techniques, and more with these 16 introductory courses from MIT Open Learning.

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Free STEAM resources and activities for pK-12 classrooms from MIT

It’s never too early to teach learners the MIT way. Educators around the world can introduce pK-12 learners to STEAM topics (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) using free educational materials designed by MIT researchers.

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Upcoming webinars

• Mitigating the danger of AI – January 16, 2025 at 12 p.m. ET.
• Demystifying Machine Learning with MIT xPRO – January 21, 2025 at 1 p.m. ET.

Featured courses

MIT 2.43 Advanced Thermodynamics

View the complete course and watch the lectures, for free, through MIT OpenCourseWare.

Paradox and Infinity

Learn more about this free MITx course on the intersection of mathematics and philosophy and enroll today.