The Next Decade of Open Sharing: Reaching One Billion Minds

MIT OpenCourseWare's First 10 Years: 100 Million Served

• On April 4, 2001, MIT announced it would publish educational materials from all of its courses freely and openly on the Internet. Ten years later, OCW has shared materials from more than 2000 courses with an estimated 100 million individuals worldwide.

The Next Decade of Open Sharing: Reaching One Billion Minds

• MIT's goal for the next decade is to increase our reach ten-fold: to reach a billion minds. We aspire by 2021 to make open educational resources like MIT OpenCourseWare the tools to bridge the global gap between human potential and opportunity, so that motivated people everywhere can improve their lives and change the world.

Kudos to MIT and other OER leaders ... those of us who have innovated after you applaud!