MIT is committed to openly sharing course materials on OpenCourseWare, free of charge. While OCW is free for anyone to access and use, it is not without cost to maintain and publish MIT course content.
Support from the Institute provides about half of OCW’s budget, and the remainder is provided by the generosity of learners like you, who donate to OCW with a median gift of $25. Gifts directly help OCW distribute, collect, digitize, and share resources from MIT faculty and courses.
As we invest in new ways of reaching learners through video, social media, and podcasting, and the NextGen platform and program, work to develop a more modern OCW platform to better meet learners’ needs, donations to OCW are more important than ever in ensuring the sustainability of our work. Gifts also enable OCW to provide local copies of the OCW site to participating schools, universities, and organizations in bandwidth-constrained regions.
Above all, your gift to OCW demonstrates a commitment to knowledge as a universal public good.