Stephen Carson
Associate Director and Head of Operations, Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, MIT
Publications & Awards
Journals & Research
- (with Sukon Kanchanaraksa, Ira Gooding, Fred Mulder and Robert Schuwer) Impact of OpenCourseWare Publication on Higher Education Participation and Student Recruitment, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol. 13 No. 4, October 2013
- MIT OpenCourseWare in the New Era of Online Learning, Bridges, Vol. 34, July 2012
- (with Philipp Schmidt) The Massive Open Online Professor, Academic Matters, May 2012
- Opening Up Education, Talking Points, July/August 2011
- (with Cecilia d’Oliveira, Kate James and Jeff Lazarus) MIT OpenCourseWare: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds, Science, Vol. 329 No. 5991, 30 July 2010
- (with Mary Lou Forward) Development of the OCW Consortium, Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE Proceedings, April 2010
- The Unwalled Garden: Growth of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, 2001-2008, Open Learning, Vol. 24, No. 1, February 2009
- The OpenCourseWare Model: High-Impact Open Educational Content, Educational Technology, Volume XLVII Number 6, November 2007
- MIT OpenCourseWare 2005 Program Evaluation Findings, available via MIT OpenCourseWare site, 2006
- MIT OpenCourseWare 2004 Program Evaluation Findings, available via MIT OpenCourseWare site, 2005
- MIT OpenCourseWare 2003 Program Evaluation Findings, available via MIT OpenCourseWare site, 2004
News Articles
- (with Sara Sezun) How to beat others to the mathematical punch, MIT News, March 28, 2014
- MathWorks expands its support for digital learning at MIT, MIT News, March 19, 2014
- Massive open entrepreneurship, MIT News, March 18, 2014
- (with Sara Sezun) New MITx course shares how data has changed healthcare, dating, and baseball, MIT News, February 19, 2014
- (with Sara Sezun) MITx course builds a systematic approach to understanding the uncertain, MIT News, January 29, 2014
- (with Sara Sezun) MITx course injects science into the global warming debate, MIT News, January 17, 2014
- MIT OpenCourseWare marks 10th anniversary, MIT News, October 1, 2013
- MITx introduces ‘XSeries’ course-sequence certificates on edX, MIT News, September 17, 2013
- MITx, edX team up with City of Chicago to bring high school students MOOC-style learning, MIT News, June 13, 2013
- New MITx online physics course combines latest in learning technology with classic videos, MIT News, May 30, 2013
- An MIT physics MOOC five years in the making, MIT News, May 1, 2013
- Office of Digital Learning to host open house, MIT News, February 4, 2013
- MIT OpenCourseWare to launch improved site design, MIT News, November 1, 2012
- MIT OpenCourseWare releases first episode of the ChemLab Boot Camp Series, MIT News, September 18, 2012
- ChemLab Boot Camp: MIT OpenCourseWare launches reality series, MIT News, August 14, 2012
- MIT OpenCourseWare selected as one of best free reference websites for 2012, MIT News, July 23, 2012
- MIT OpenCourseWare publishes new resource for entrepreneurship education, MIT News, April 25, 2012
- MIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa named award recipient by the OCW Consortium, MIT News, March 23, 2012
- MathWorks makes multi-year sponsorship commitment to MIT OpenCourseWare, MIT News, March 2, 2012
- MIT OpenCourseWare teams up with Flat World Knowledge to combine free texts and free course materials, MIT News, February 29, 2012
- Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science now available in OCW Scholar format, MIT News, February 27, 2012
- Principles of Microeconomics now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar format, MIT News, February 23, 2012
- Differential Equations now available in MIT OpenCourseWare’s innovative OCW Scholar format, MIT News, February 13, 2012
- MIT OpenCourseWare publishes Linear Algebra in innovative OCW Scholar format, MIT News, February 9, 2012
- MIT Professor Lewin named award recipient by the OCW Consortium, MIT News, March 11, 2011
- Reflections on a decade of open sharing: A global movement, MIT News, February 10, 2011
- MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners, MIT News, January 12, 2011
- A decade of OCW benefits: Building a better course through OCW, MIT News, January 7, 2011
- Reflections on decade of open sharing: A new generation of web resources, MIT News, December 20, 2010
- A decade of OCW benefits: Resources for real world solutions, MIT News, December 8, 2010
- MIT OpenCourseWare named WISE Award Laureate, MIT News, November 15 , 2010
- A decade of OCW benefits: Drawing talent to MIT, MIT News, November 3, 2010
- MIT OpenCourseWare teams up with OpenStudy to help OCW users connect, MIT News, September 22, 2010
- TIME Magazine selects MIT OpenCourseWare as one of its 50 best websites of 2010, MIT News, August 26, 2010
- MIT OpenCourseWare reaches 2,000-course milestone, MIT News, July 10, 2010
Fiction
- In This Late Hour, short story, Amherst Review, Volume XXIX, 2001
- Monster Teeth, short story, Descant Magazine, Fall 1994
Creative Nonfiction
- The Kind of Boy I Was, Dry Creek Review, Spring 2001
Poetry
- Today, The Cape Rock, Spring 2002
- The Company of Trees, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Spring 2001
- Chestnut Hill Reservoir, The Distillery, Volume VIII Number 2, July 2001
- Father, Cutting Vegetables, Gulf Stream, No. 16, 2000
- The Penalty Tent, Passages North, Summer 1998
- Dinner, Hawai’i Review, Fall/Winter 1997
- Grief, Beacon Street Review, Spring 1995
- Ruthie and Belle’s Farm, Irwin, OH, Calliope, Spring 1989
Awards
- Narrative Magazine Story Content, Finalist, Spring 2013 for Prologue from River of the Crumbling Banks
- Richard Duprey Creative Writing Contest, Second Place, Poetry Division, 1995 for Knowing You
- National Endowment for the Arts Grant, as a member of the writing group Fifth Business, 1990
- West Virginia Writers’, Inc. Creative Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Fiction Division, 1990 for Hunting
- Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest, Second Place, Poetry Division, 1989 for Past Encounters
- Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Fiction Division, 1986
- Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest, Second Place, Poetry Division, 1986 for Ruthie and Belle’s Farm, Irwin, OH
