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L. RAFAEL REIF: In creating OCW, MIT
launched a quiet, but profound educational revolution.
It unleashed the global open sharing movement
and helped pave the way for the worldwide phenomenon
of open digital learning.
SANJAY SARMA: What are two or three words
to describe OpenCourseWare's impact?
I would say knowledge at scale.
LEO ALCOCK: Eye opening.
MUSSIE DEMISSE: Enlightening.
SARAH HANSEN: Choose your own adventure.
ZACH ERDMAN: A whole new world.
JAMES GLAPA-GROSSKLAG: Wow.
20 years of MIT's OpenCourseWare.
That's just amazing to think about.
KRISHNA RAJAGOPAL: We've had more than 200 million people
come to OCW and learn from the materials that MIT is sharing.
MUSSIE DEMISSE: My initial introduction to OpenCourseWare
was actually at Bunker Hill Community College.
My linear algebra professor would give us
these weekly quizzes.
We told her it was hard.
And she said actually, this is an MIT quiz.
And I was kind of blown away that I did some part of it.
And when I inquired how she got the quiz, she said,
oh, there's this thing called MIT OpenCourseWare.
It imparted me with this confidence of,
oh, I can do this.
I can survive in an MIT course.
And that drove me to say maybe I can thrive at MIT.
ABHAY PAREKH: OCW was the pioneer.
It opened everybody's eyes to the possibility
of connecting to learners who are
in different countries and different situations,
different ages.
MAY THET KHINE NYEIN: We are making
the MIT OCW available in universities and community
libraries, which do not have internet connection.
ABOO FATALLY: It has encouraged me to learn,
to find out about things, to understand, and to apply.
CURT NEWTON: There is so much that
can be achieved by just giving people
complete wide open access to this knowledge
that they can use whenever, wherever, as much
as they need, as little as they need.
AMAH EDOH: It takes this very kind
of privileged elite education that we
make accessible to our students and opens it up
to a broader public.
JAMES GLAPA-GROSSKLAG: The very existence
of MIT's OpenCourseWare is inspiring.
It's a shining example for institutions of higher
education around the world.
AMAH EDOH: I think there's also great value
in showing the range of disciplines that are taught
at MIT and showing the fact that the humanities
and social sciences are as much a strength of what
MIT has to offer as the STEM disciplines.
This course that I created is now part of the record
and is now something that someone else can build on.
EVELYN LAURITO: Everything is there-- even the syllabus, even
the instructions of the teachers, thesis assignments.
ABOO FATALLY: OCW is perhaps one of the best
thing that has happened to education worldwide.
EVELYN LAURITO: It's like being so unselfish.
You're giving everything of what you have
and sharing it with the other people,
especially in developing countries,
like the Philippines.
LEO ALCOCK: OpenCourseWare quite literally changed my life.
It gave me the education I needed when there wasn't
another place to find it.
MUSSIE DEMISSE: You're giving people
the tools that will allow them to achieve their potential.
SARAH HANSEN: We have real problems in the world that
need to be solved.
And we need problem solvers from every area of the planet
to work on these.
CURT NEWTON: We've created this powerful foundation
of free access to knowledge.
And together, we'll keep growing it.
We're creating better ways for learners and teachers
to find and to use that OCW content.
And we'll keep sharing that vibrant reflection
of the teaching and creativity from MIT.
KRISHNA RAJAGOPAL: As we think about equity,
we think about collaborators.
So that we can bring more people starting
from different starting points coming in at different ways
to the point that they can learn from OCW.
CURT NEWTON: Together, we're forging
new paths, where everyone's contributing to the world's
growing knowledge.
And we're all using and sharing that knowledge every day
to solve the world's great challenges.
MUSSIE DEMISSE: I want OCW to attract people.
So it's not just a neutral if you want it, come get it.
I want OCW to be calling on people to educate themselves,
to empower themselves, to build and to have
the necessary tools to do what they think is important.
SANJAY SARMA: And I'm hoping that over time, this snowball
from 20 years ago becomes an avalanche
of intellectual exchange amongst humanity.
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