The goal of advancing education around the world is shared by the MIT Faculty. Indeed, we owe the existence of OpenCourseWare to the foresight, dedication, and generosity of our faculty. In the year 2000, a faculty committee first proposed this bold and innovative idea, and since then, the vast majority of our faculty–over 90–have voluntarily contributed their teaching materials for free and open publishing on OCW. MIT faculty are passionate about their teaching, and they are keen to see their work benefit global society. In 1999, MIT Faculty considered how to use the Internet in pursuit of MITs mission—to advance knowledge and educate students—and in 2000 proposed OCW. MIT published the first proofofconcept site in 2002, containing 50 courses. By November 2007, MIT completed the initial publication of virtually the entire curriculum, over 1,800 courses in 33 academic disciplines. Going forward, the OCW team is updating existing courses and adding new content and services to the site. MIT OpenCourseWare OCW is a webbased publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

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