THE MIT OPENCOURSEWARE PROGRAM

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a large-scale, Web-based publication of the

educational materials from virtually all of the MIT faculty’s courses. This
unique initiative enables the open sharing of MIT teaching materials with
educators, enrolled students, and self-learners around the world.

OCW provides open access to the core academic content — syllabi, lecture
notes, course calendars, problem sets and solutions, exams, reading lists, and even a selection of video lectures —
from MIT courses representing 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT’s schools. As of June 2010, the initiative
includes materials from more than 2,000 courses, presenting virtually the entire curriculum of the Institute.

Educators around the globe are encouraged to utilize the materials for curriculum development, and self-learners
and students may draw upon the materials for self-study or supplementary use. Course materials contained on the
OCW Web site may be freely used, copied, distributed, translated, and modified by anyone, anywhere in the world
for non-commercial purposes.

Truly a global initiative, OCW materials have been visited by more than 71 million individuals to date. Visitors
have come to the site from more than 215 countries, territories, and city-states around the globe—including every
member of the United Nations—and materials already have been translated into at least ten different languages.