Five Years in the Making MIT Courses Fully Online. (December 14, 2007)

Science Reports:

It took 5 years, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has put all its courses online. Free materials for all 1800 courses are available at ocw.mit.edu--everything from full video talks about aerospace engineering to anthropology lecture notes about "Intersubjectivity, Phenomenology, Emotion, and Embodiment." The site has drawn 35 million visitors since 2002, most from outside North America, says MIT's Stephen Carson. "It's unprecedented to have all the courses available at a university this deeply and openly available on the Web. … It's an extension of the public-service function of the university."