Webcast recap and recording: MIT OpenCourseWare's past and future

This year, MIT OpenCourseWare is celebrating its tenth anniversary. That's one full decade providing open access to more than 2,000 courses with course materials including lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, simulations, and the video lectures.

In today's webcast, Cecilia d’Oliveira, executive director of OpenCourseWare, shared the history of OpenCourseWare and its vision for the future.

The 2001 decision by the MIT faculty to allow anyone to use their course content was a groundbreaking move, one that has opened education in profound ways. Since then, an estimated 100 million individuals have accessed MIT’s resources...