Flash-forward/Flash-back in OpenCourseware

Principal Investigator
Prof. Haynes Miller, Mathematics; Ms. Cecilia d'Oliveira, Office of the Provost; Prof. Karen Willcox, Aeronautics and Astronautics
Fund: Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period: AY2011
Department/Lab/Center: Mathematics

This Class Funds project will develop internal links within the MIT OpenCourseWare site designed to help students in basic mathematics and sciences courses to see how the material they are currently learning is actually used in later courses, and for students in major courses (e.g. engineering courses) to quickly and accurately access background material from prerequisite courses (e.g. mathematics courses). These operations are called "Flash-forward" and "Flash-back."