MIT OpenCourseWare: Free Courses from the institute

Produced by Chris Boebel and Brett Paci, and edited by David Ozug, this fifteen-minute documentary celebrates MIT OpenCourseWare’s origin, influence, and global reach.

This documentary is the second of MIT Open Learning's MIT Stories documentary series. View all MIT Stories here: https://learn.mit.edu/video-playlist/88445

Please note that the content of these documentaries is not covered under OCW's Creative Commons license.

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MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020
Instructor: Markus Klute
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20
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Overview of tracking detectors.

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MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020
Instructor: Markus Klute
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au

This is a brief introduction to particle accelerator concepts with a historic touch.

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MIT 3.020 Thermodynamics of Materials, Spring 2021
Instructor: Rafael Jaramillo

Uploaded 23-10-23

View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/3-020-thermodynamics-of-materials-spring-2021/
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This lecture covers intermediate phases and line compounds, comparing solutions of equilibrium to line compounds at equilibrium, and metal oxides.

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MIT 9.35 Perception, Spring 2024
Instructor: Josh McDermott
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-35-perception-spring-2024
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62-9RweyYBIpkqfo5dfcuS8

This lecture covers how the auditory system interprets a single waveform in terms of the likely different sound sources that contributed to it.

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Celebrate 25 years of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)—a bold experiment that became a global movement. This symposium brings together learners, educators, supporters, open knowledge leaders, and the MIT community to honor OCW’s extraordinary impact and to chart the future of open education.

Since its launch in 2001, OCW has empowered millions worldwide with free access to MIT course materials. This anniversary offers a moment to recognize the vibrant ecosystem that sustains open knowledge as a public good—and to reaffirm MIT’s mission-driven leadership in ensuring that high-quality learning remains accessible to all.

Join us for an engaging, dynamic, and celebratory program featuring MIT leadership, pioneering faculty, global learners, open education innovators, and philanthropic partners. Together, we will explore OCW’s legacy, its role in the evolving open ecosystem, and the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Symposium Program

10:00AM–10:10AM
From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare
Welcome remarks from Dimitris Bertsimas and Curt Newton.

10:10AM–10:30AM
Opening Remarks from MIT President Sally Kornbluth
President Kornbluth will reflect on OCW’s impact and the Institute’s leadership in open knowledge.

10:30AM–11:00AM
OCW @ 25: A Story in Motion
Premiere of a new short documentary celebrating OCW’s origins, influence, and global reach, followed by a panel with key MIT contributors who have helped shape OCW’s worldwide influence.

11:15AM–12:15 PM
Learning Without Limits: How OCW Opens Opportunity for Curious Minds Worldwide
A conversation with learners and educators whose stories reveal the transformative power of open knowledge—showing how OCW has sparked curiosity, expanded opportunity, and inspired people worldwide to imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities.

12:15PM–1:00PM Lunch Reception

1:00PM–1:45PM
Knowledge Without Walls: MIT’s Ethos of Open
A cross-campus look at MIT’s leadership in all forms of open knowledge—expanding the open education legacy of OCW and championing knowledge as a public good. This session highlights how practices in open source technologies, open access, open science and data, and open publishing have evolved across MIT and influenced global movements for accessible and equitable learning.

2:00PM–3:00PM
Catalysts of Open: Philanthropy’s Role in the Open Education Movement
A conversation with supporters and partners from the open education funding community about the essential role that philanthropy has played—and continues to play—in driving forward a global movement centered on access, equity, and the belief that knowledge should be a public good.

3:15PM–4:15PM
The Future of MIT Open Education
A forward-looking dialogue on the commitments and evolution of OCW and MIT’s open learning initiatives, including mobile learning, language translation, AI-enabled personalization and learning supports, and sustaining open education’s place in future knowledge landscapes.

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MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020
Instructor: Markus Klute
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au

Overview of calorimeter concepts.

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MIT 8.701 Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics, Fall 2020
Instructor: Markus Klute
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/8-701F20
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60Do91PdN978llIsvjKW0au

Discussion of the kinematics of relativistic particles in the previous section. Spin adds an additional complication. Here we review the concept of spin and define helicity.

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MIT 9.35 Perception, Spring 2024
Instructor: Josh McDermott
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-35-perception-spring-2024
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62-9RweyYBIpkqfo5dfcuS8

Continues the discussion of how cells in the retina register visual information.

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MIT 21H.151 Dynastic China, Fall 2024
Instructor: Tristan G. Brown
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21h-151-dynastic-china-fall-2024
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Prof. Brown discusses the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.

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