MIT OpenCourseWare is a publication of MIT
course materials. There is no registration
for the site, and all materials are completely
free to use.
Courses are published on OpenCourseWare after
they have been taught at MIT.
You'll find courses that were taught ten years
ago, but are just as relevant today, such
as Classical Mechanics. But you'll also find
courses taught recently on timely issues like
repairing the Hubble telescope. The icons
on our course lists indicate some of the resources
in the course, such as exams with solutions
or image galleries.
The materials in these courses show educators
how they might teach a similar topic: how
many times the course met each week and what
was covered during each session.
MIT students use the site to plan their workload
or review concepts they learned during previous
semesters.
Independent learners can brush up on skills
or tackle new subjects with our video lectures.
Many courses contain exams and solutions,
so you can practice what you've learned.
Courses can be downloaded for offline use.
Just save the link to your computer and extract
the contents. It's all the same material as
what you see online, except we leave out video
and audio files to keep the file from getting
too large.
You can download those files from our partner
sites, like iTunes U.
We have collected all courses that have video
or audio resources in one list here.
With more than one million visitors each month,
we can't answer all of the questions you might
have while using the site, and we can't connect
you directly to MIT faculty. But a lot of
your questions may be answered in our Help
section.
We publish 50 new courses every year, and
update 100 older courses with new material.
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