Suggested preparation: Experience with professional work or collaborative projects is useful.
Optional preparation: Free AI Study Skills Course: Gemini for Students.
About this course
Examine reflective practice as a way to learn from complex professional situations. Lectures discuss framing, knowledge, disagreement and the relationship between action and reflection.
Topics and lesson examples
- 1. Introduction to Reflective Practice
- 3. Ways of Knowledge Generation
- 5. Virtual Worlds and Their Role in Creative Work
- 7. Reframing for Resolving Intractable Controversies
- 10. Frontiers of Schön's Approach and Its Relevance in the 21st Century
Course at a glance
| Provider | MIT |
|---|---|
| Platform | YouTube · MIT OpenCourseWare |
| Access | Free Video |
| Level | Intermediate — WikiFree study-level assessment |
| Language | English |
| Available lessons | 10 |
| Video duration | 24h 5m · self-paced |
| Details checked | 10 October 2026 |
Preparation and study approach
Suggested preparation: Experience with professional work or collaborative projects is useful.
Follow the available videos in sequence, pausing to summarize the main argument or reconstruct a worked example. Keep a short list of assumptions, unfamiliar terms and questions to revisit. Additional reading, problem solving and practice will take time beyond the listed video duration.
Using this video classroom
Select a lesson from the list, or search for a topic. Previous and Next move through the sequence. You can mark lessons complete; progress is stored in this browser without a WikiFree account.
Free access and course scope
The public MIT OpenCourseWare videos in this classroom are free to watch. This listing provides the available playlist recordings, which may include selected lectures, recitations, demonstrations or supporting discussions rather than every component of the original campus course. Textbooks, equipment, software licenses, supervised labs, graded assignments and instructor feedback are not supplied by WikiFree. No purchase is required to watch the videos or use the note-based study approach above.
WikiFree independently organizes these resources for self-paced study. Watching does not award an MIT certificate, academic credit or admission to MIT.
Video provider and credit: MIT OpenCourseWare on YouTube. WikiFree titles, descriptions and cover artwork are independently prepared.
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Compare course focus, level and study time
| Course | Level | Focus | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| This course — Free MIT Course: Reflective Practice and Professional Learning | Intermediate | 1. Introduction to Reflective Practice · 3. Ways of Knowledge Generation · 5. Virtual Worlds and Their Role in Creative Work | 24h 5m of video; practice time is additional |
| Free AI Study Skills Course: Gemini for Students | Beginner | Learning prompts · Research support · Study materials | 1h 1m of video; practice time is additional |
Provider: MIT. Videos play from the MIT OpenCourseWare channel on YouTube.
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