FAQs

Does Crosslinks actually work? What's the theory behind it?

We have published a paper in The Bridge journal at the National Academy of Engineering: Miller, H., Willcox, K. and Huang, L., Crosslinks: Improving Course Connectivity Using Online Open Educational Resources, in The Bridge, The National Academy of Engineering, Volume 46, Number 3, pp. 38-44, Fall 2016.

I'm confused about the six sections — what is Prepare, Learn, Relate, Advance, Apply and Assess?

These sections is a way of saying how topics are related to each other, and how you can learn them. Check out the detailed explanation here.

Is the material on Crosslinks accurate?

The links you see here have been published by reputable sources; most of it comes from within MIT. The descriptions are either quoted directly from course material, Wolfram, Wikipedia or in a few cases, written directly by Prof. Haynes Miller or Prof. Karen Willcox.

Something is wrong on the site. I have a suggestion!

Please email us at the MIT Mapping Lab.

I am an educator and I want to have my own Crosslinks for my own organization.

The Crosslinks code library can be found on Github. If you have any questions about using this library, you can email the MIT Mapping Lab.