Suggested preparation: An interest in teaching, learning or educational product design.
Optional preparation: Write & Improve for English Teachers: Free Course.
About this course
Evaluate educational technology through ideas about learning. The lectures discuss cognitive load, intelligent tutoring, learning games and assessment, helping you question whether a tool supports a meaningful learning goal.
Topics and lesson examples
- 02. How People Learn: Cognitive Load Theory
- 07. EdTech Before the Internet
- 10. Intelligent Tutors
- 14. Learning Games
- 20. The Toxic Power of Data and Experiment
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 | 11h 28m · self-paced |
| Details checked | 10 October 2026 |
Preparation and study approach
Suggested preparation: An interest in teaching, learning or educational product design.
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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| Course | Level | Focus | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| This course — Free MIT Course: Educational Technology and Learning Design | Intermediate | 02. How People Learn: Cognitive Load Theory · 07. EdTech Before the Internet · 10. Intelligent Tutors | 11h 28m of video; practice time is additional |
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Provider: MIT. Videos play from the MIT OpenCourseWare channel on YouTube.
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