2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011
2000
- October - OpenCourseWare concept recommended by MIT faculty committee
2001
- April - MIT OpenCourseWare announced on the front page of the New York Times
2002
- July - UNESCO convenes Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries; coins term "Open Educational Resources"
- October - MIT OpenCourseWare proof-of-concept site launched
2003
- July - Universia begins Spanish and Portuguese translations of MIT OpenCourseWare
- September - Fulbright Economics Teaching Program OCW (Vietnam) launches the first East Asian OCW
- October - Official MIT OpenCourseWare site launch with 500 courses
- October - MIT OpenCourseWare receives 300,000 visits in the first month
2004
- February - OOPS begins Traditional Chinese translations of MIT OpenCourseWare
- June - CORE begins Simplified Chinese translations
- October - 900 courses published on MIT OpenCourseWare
- October - MIT OpenCourseWare featured on CNN International
- December - 4.5 million visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in 2004
2005
2006
2007
- January - MIT OpenCourseWare featured in the Christian Science Monitor
- March - MIT OpenCourseWare in Reuters, Wall Street Journal
- April - University of Southern Queensland OCW launches, bringing OCW to Australia
- May - Fifth OCW Consortium Meeting, Santander, Spain
- May - Universia OCW launches with ten leading Spanish universities
- June - 4,200 total courses published by OCW Consortium
- June - Korea University OCW launches
- August - National Chiao Tung University OCW (Taiwan) launches
- September - 45 million total visits to MIT OpenCourseWare content (includes OCW site, translations, mirror)
- September - Sixth OCW Consortium Meeting, Logan, UT
- September - Utah OCW Consortium launches
- October - 5,000 total courses published by OCW Consortium
- October - Delft University of Technology OCW launches
- November - UMass Boston OCW launches
- November - 1,800 courses published on MIT OpenCourseWare, representing virtually the entire curriculum
- November - MIT OpenCourseWare launches Highlights for High School
- December - 13.4 million visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in 2007
2008
- February - United Nations University OCW launches
- April - Capilano College (now University) OCW launches, becoming the first Canadian OCW
- April - Sixth OCWC Global Meeting, Dalian, China
- April - Inaugural OCW Consortium board of directors elected
- June - 8,000 total OCW Consortium courses
- July - OCW Consortium is formally incorporated as an independent organization
- September - Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) launches
- December - 12.9 million visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in 2008
2009
- February - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals OCW launches
- March - 11,000 total courses published by OCW Consortium
- April - Seventh OCWC Global Meeting, Monterrey, Mexico
- July - Mary Lou Forward joins OCW Consortium as the first permanent Executive Director
- July - MIT OpenCourseWare's Highlights for High School recognized as a Landmark Website for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians
- December - MIT OpenCourseWare's Highlights for High School receives one millionth visit
- December - 15 million visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in 2009
2010
- March - 14 members of the OCW Consortium commit to sustaining membership, providing $25,000 each over 5 years in support of the organization
- March - University of Sumatera Utara OCW launches
- April - 13,000 total courses published by OCW Consortium
- April - Bill Gates visits MIT campus, reports viewing 11 of MIT's 34 video courses; says he is a "super happy user"
- April - New Jersey Institute of Technology OCW launches
- April - Eighth OCWC Global Meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam
- July - 2,000 courses published by MIT OpenCourseWare
- July - MIT OpenCourseWare named as a recipient of the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) by the journal Science
- August - MIT OpenCourseWare named as one of TIME Magazine's Best Websites of 2010
- September - MIT OpenCourseWare and OpenStudy begin collaboration to bring study groups to MIT OpenCourseWare users
- September - Harvard Open Learning Initiative launches
- October - New York University Open Learning launches
- October - African Virtual University becomes 15th sustaining member of the OCW Consortium
- November - MIT OpenCourseWare named as a Qatar Foundation WISE Award Laureate for 2010
- December - 17.5 million visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in 2010
2011
