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MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.
Knowledge is your reward. Use OCW to guide your own lifelong learning, or to teach others. MIT does not offer credit or certification to users of OCW.
No enrollment and always available. Freely browse and use OCW materials at your own pace. There's no start or end dates, nor any requirement to create an account.
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The most important lesson OCW has taught me is that I can learn anything I want to, and anyone can. The brevity, the content, and the teaching methods of these MIT professors…make it wonderfully fun and that good communication and passion goes a long way.
Sharing MIT educational materials with the rest of the world was not just path-breaking, it was path-making for other institutions to follow.
I really love the OCW mission of sharing everything that we have from an educational standpoint so that more people can use those materials how they want, and students can directly browse through class material or learn things that pique their interests.
Discover how MIT OpenCourseWare is transforming education and expanding access to knowledge for learners and educators across the globe. Read our latest impact report to see the difference we're making.
The principle that knowledge should be available to everyone, free from barriers, sparked MIT OpenCourseWare’s creation in 2001. Realizing this ideal is critical to enabling people to address global educational and societal challenges.
As artificial intelligence and social media stretch the bounds of facts and truth, human insight and discernment are more important than ever. You can count on MIT OpenCourseWare materials, developed by world-leading educators, being reliable, rigorous, and relevant in an era of misinformation and information overload.
Education cannot be confined to traditional classrooms nor classic career stages. Free and open knowledge enables continuous learning that carries through disruptions and fosters thriving lives through shifting life circumstances.
Embracing new technologies to personalize learning, expand language accessibility, and steward MIT’s ethos of openness into the future. Because we’re stronger together, OCW will keep building collaborations with people and institutions around the world who share these values.
MIT is committed to openly sharing course materials on OpenCourseWare, free of charge. While OCW is free for anyone to access and use, it is not free to maintain and publish MIT course content.
Support from the Institute provides about half of OCW’s budget, and the remainder is provided by the generosity of donors like you, who give to OCW with a median gift of $25. Gifts directly help OCW distribute, collect, digitize, and share resources from MIT faculty and courses.
As we continue to invest in new content and better ways to reach learners through video, language translations, AI personalization and collaborations, donations to OCW are more important than ever in ensuring the sustainability of our work. Gifts also enable OCW to provide local copies of the OCW site to participating schools, universities, and organizations in bandwidth-constrained regions.
Above all, your gift to OCW demonstrates a commitment to knowledge as a universal public good.
We almost take for granted the idea that an enormous amount of outstanding educational content is available to anyone in the world with an internet connection. Yet the fact that this is now the norm has a great deal to do with a groundbreaking project launched at MIT in 2001. OpenCourseWare changed the landscape of education, and it continues to inspire students, teachers and lifelong learners around the globe to follow their curiosity wherever it leads.
Sally Kornbluth February 2024
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