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When did Walter Lewin leave MIT?
As MIT pointed out, Lewin, 78, taught his last course on campus in spring 2008 and retired the next year.
In which country is MIT located?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| Motto | Mens et Manus (Latin) |
|---|---|
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States42.360°N 71.092°WCoordinates:42.360°N 71.092°W |
| Campus | Midsize City, 166 acres (67.2 ha) |
| Newspaper | The Tech |
| Colors | Cardinal Red Silver Gray Black |
Why was Walter Lewin removed from MIT OpenCourseWare?
MIT is indefinitely removing retired physics faculty member Walter Lewin’s online lectures from MIT OpenCourseWare and online MITx courses from edX, the online learning platform co-founded by MIT, following a determination that Dr. Lewin engaged in online sexual harassment in violation of MIT policies.
What does Walter Lewin do for a living?
Since February 2015, Lewin has been running and managing his own YouTube channel called “Lectures by Walter Lewin. They will make you ♥ Physics”. All of his lectures can be viewed online on this channel. Here Lewin vlogs about his everyday life and also host quizzes on physics and art.
What happened to MIT professor Robert Lewin?
In December 2014, MIT revoked Lewin’s Professor Emeritus title after an MIT investigation determined that Lewin had violated university policy by sexually harassing an online student in an online MITx course he taught in fall 2013. Lewin was born to Walter Simon Lewin and Pieternella Johanna van der Tang in 1936 in The Hague, Netherlands.
Where can I find Lewin’s lectures on physics?
Videos of Lewin’s 94 lectures on Newtonian mechanics (1999), electricity and magnetism (2002) and the physics of vibrations and waves (2004), among others, could be viewed on the MIT OpenCourseWare web site until MIT removed them after finding that Lewin had sexually harassed a student in the online course.