- Get Involved We’re delighted to announce a new experiment in
online learning: MIT OpenCourseWare, Codecademy, OpenStudy and
P2PU are partnering together to offer a new kind of massive open
online course (MOOC). Our first course is “A Gentle Introduction
to Python.” The Mechanical MOOC is a man (or machine) of
mystery. It sends out emails to thousands of small groups
pointing them to lectures, tutorials, and exercises – but also
encourages learners to think for themselves and share additional
resources with each other. It provides a map to learning Python,
but doesn’t discourage folks from careening off the beaten path.
This is the open web, after all. These weekly messages will
loosely tie together great resources that exist on the open web.
We are not creating new content, but connecting it in
interesting ways. We build on MIT OCW lectures and notes. We
point people to a Q&A forum on OpenStudy. And we point users to
great python tutorials on Codecademy. The approach will reach a
large audience of learners,