Supporting access to education

Great learning.
Fewer barriers.

Discover MIT OpenCourseWare and the Mirror Site Program—helping bring openly available course materials to curious minds, classrooms, and communities.

Explore MIT courses Bring learning to your school

Free course materials
Self-paced learning
For teachers & students

A guide to getting started

Open learning, explained.

Understand the programs, explore teaching resources, and learn how your school can get involved.

What is MIT OpenCourseWare?

A free online program where MIT publishes video lectures and materials from hundreds of semester-long undergraduate and graduate level courses. You can use these courses entirely at your own pace and on your own time.

What is the MIT Mirror Site Program?

Afreeprogram thatprovides copies of the MIT OpenCourseWare website on hard drives to educational organizations with limited or costly internet access. This allows your school's students to easily stream MIT's courses.

Who is OCW for?

Everyone! Learning is a lifelong process, that is why both teachers and students can benefit from OCW.

Teachers. In addition to the OCW courses, below are some additional ways OCW supports teachers.Feel free to make the teaching materials linked below your own because they're all openly-licensed.

Chalk Talk Podcast: Interviews with MIT professors about cutting-edge research, innovative teaching methods, and more. https://chalk-radio.simplecast.com/
MIT OCW High School: OCW edition directed towards High School subjects. https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/
Remote Learning Tips: Lessons learned from MIT professors teaching remote. https://teachremote.mit.edu/
Innovative Teaching: View research-based teaching practices to bring digital innovations to residential education. https://openlearning.mit.edu/mit-faculty/residential-digital-innovations

Students can benefit by following along with a course that sparks their interest, on their own time and at their own pace.

Where can I use OCW?

You can stream lectures that interest you visiting the official OCW website, https://ocw.mit.edu/ or the OCW youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT

In areas with limited internet access, the Mirror Site Program is the optimal way to ensure your students have reliable and uninterupted access to OCW

How can I bring the MIT Mirror Site Program to my school?

To be eligible for a free mirror site, your school must:

Be a non-profit entity
Have local hosting or workstations to support mirror site use
Have staff and resources sufficient to maintain the mirror site

Have questions about getting started? Email [email protected]. If possible, include a member of your school’s IT department so we can discuss your technical needs.

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Why is Sandstrom & Associates sponsoring this program?

We value knowledge as a public good and believe that students and teachers should have easy access to the best learning materials available. We have benefited from the OCW program ourselves and want to spread the OCW mission to as many schools as we can for free.

Where can I find more information?

OCWHome Page: https://ocw.mit.edu/

Mirror SiteHome Page: https://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/