About MIT OpenCourseWare
Learn about MIT OpenCourseWare's beginnings, mission, and what you can do with free and open MIT educational materials. https://ocw.mit.edu License: ...
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OpenCourseWare is based on a simple but revolutionary idea. That MIT can advance it's mission by sharing nearly all of it's course content online, for free. Early 2000 was still the heyday of the dotcom era. MIT was trying to figure out what MIT should do in this e-learning space. It was before YouTube. It was before Facebook. It was before the web had completely taken hold. What we're going to do is we're going take all of the materials we use in our classrooms And we're going to put them on the web. When OCW was first launched, the focus was on opening to the world what we teach. For an education institution like MIT, we have 11,000 students. To reach 200 million people is really an amazing feat. Every year, I have 60 to 70 bright new faces Through OCW, t...
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OpenCourseWare is based on a simple but revolutionary idea. That MIT can advance it's mission by sharing nearly all of it's course content online, for free. Early 2000 was still the heyday of the dotcom era. MIT was trying to figure out what MIT should do in this e-learning space. It was before YouTube. It was before Facebook. It was before the web had completely taken hold. What we're going to do is we're going take all of the materials we use in our classrooms And we're going to put them on the web. When OCW was first launched, the focus was on opening to the world what we teach. For an education institution like MIT, we have 11,000 students. To reach 200 million people is really an amazing feat. Every year, I have 60 to 70 bright new faces Through OCW, t...
