MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin

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I hope people don’t mind that I’m reviving this thread. I’d seen the Lewin lectures before, and just now wanted to return and do the entire course, so I just today became aware of this controversy.

I regret to say that @molliebatmit is correct. It was REAL BAD. The accuser came forward in January. She was an online student in the physics MOOC. She set up a Facebook group for other online students. Lewin joined the group, and immediately started harassing her. And she wasn’t the only online student who was harassed; she found ten other women who were also victims.

Shortly after contacting her, Harbi said, Lewin quickly moved their friendship into uncomfortable territory, and she was pushed to participate in online sexual role-playing and send naked pictures and videos of herself. …
The harassment, however, “started day one,” Harbi said. Eventually, she said she discovered she was one of many women, which MIT confirmed.
Harbi last October sent MIT a packet of more than 100 chat logs, emails, pictures, recordings and screenshots to document the harassment against her and other women. She gave Inside Higher Ed permission to view the contents on condition that they not be published and that names of the other women not be disclosed. The various pieces of evidence include nudity and sexually explicit language.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-unprecedented-walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case-comes-forward