1 00:00:06,242 --> 00:00:07,950 SHIGERU MIYAGAWA: When you look at what's 2 00:00:07,950 --> 00:00:10,350 happening in the world now, you see 3 00:00:10,350 --> 00:00:17,910 that institutions like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, 4 00:00:17,910 --> 00:00:21,870 they are all producing digital content 5 00:00:21,870 --> 00:00:23,880 and sharing it with the world. 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,160 That's something that we started with OpenCourseWare 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,420 here at MIT in the year 2001. 8 00:00:30,420 --> 00:00:34,470 This is now part of the profile of a top university. 9 00:00:34,470 --> 00:00:35,460 You do research. 10 00:00:35,460 --> 00:00:36,750 You teach your students. 11 00:00:36,750 --> 00:00:41,070 And you share your material with the world. 12 00:00:41,070 --> 00:00:43,590 What I see also happening now is that not only 13 00:00:43,590 --> 00:00:46,380 do you share your digital educational content 14 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:49,680 with the world, but you bring it back on campus 15 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,220 and use that digital content to transform 16 00:00:53,220 --> 00:00:56,400 your own residential classroom. 17 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:02,430 This is sort of the final piece of the loop, which 18 00:01:02,430 --> 00:01:08,077 I think MIT is very serious in accomplishing. 19 00:01:10,650 --> 00:01:14,040 We have produced something like 200 MOOCs. 20 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,050 And they are all used. 21 00:01:16,050 --> 00:01:21,660 Virtually all of them are being used for residential education, 22 00:01:21,660 --> 00:01:26,400 so much so that 90% of undergraduate students 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:33,370 take at least one course at MIT that uses the MOOC. 24 00:01:33,370 --> 00:01:36,921 Open Courseware is used widely by undergraduate students, 25 00:01:36,921 --> 00:01:38,295 more so than most people realize. 26 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,890 I don't think I've ever run across an MIT undergraduate 27 00:01:43,890 --> 00:01:46,800 student who had not heard of Open Courseware. 28 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:50,730 They use it sort of like air. 29 00:01:50,730 --> 00:01:52,950 They use it to see if they want to take 30 00:01:52,950 --> 00:01:54,930 a certain course next semester. 31 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:57,690 They use that to catch up on their own course. 32 00:01:57,690 --> 00:02:01,290 They use problem sets from several years 33 00:02:01,290 --> 00:02:05,550 ago just to brush up on their own study of the course 34 00:02:05,550 --> 00:02:09,729 that they're taking and sometimes 35 00:02:09,729 --> 00:02:12,270 just to look at a course they know they're not going to take, 36 00:02:12,270 --> 00:02:14,310 because it's outside of their specialty, 37 00:02:14,310 --> 00:02:17,370 but they're just curious about what's 38 00:02:17,370 --> 00:02:19,590 being taught in that course.