Year-End Stats from MIT Point to Increasing Popularity of Open Educational Resources

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• 17.5 million visits
• 9.6 million visitors
• 1.82 visits per visitor
• 98.3 million page views (a little lower than 2009)
• 5.63 page views per visit
• 1.9 million zip files downloaded
• 11.8 million files downloaded from iTunes U
• 7.3 million videos viewed on YouTube
• 275,000 visits from the MIT community
• 446,000 visits referred by StumbleUpon, 172,000 by Reddit, 112,000 by Wikipedia, 95,000 by YouTube, and 78,000 by Facebook
• 38% of visits used Firefox, 33% used IE, 15% used Chrome, and 10% used Safari

Notable among these figures are users' preferences for content delivery via iTunes U and YouTube, as opposed to downloading a zip file containing a course package. Also interesting: visitors from the MIT community are only 1% of those who use the service, successfully fulfilling the program's mission of "open sharing of MIT teaching materials with educators, students, and self-learners around the world."