MIT OCW is large-scale, Web-based electronic publishing initiative funded jointly by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and MIT. Its goals are to:

1. Provide free, searchable, coherent access to MIT's course materials for educators in the non-profit sector, students, and individual learners around the world.
2. Create an efficient, standards-based model that other universities may emulate to publish their own course materials.

We expect MIT OCW to reach a steady - though never static - state by summer 2007. Between now and then we will be publishing more MIT courses, adding features such as extensive metadata tagging, launching a comprehensive ongoing evaluation process, developing and enhancing our content management and publishing technologies, and evolving our internal staffing and workflow. In this early pilot stage, we will benefit enormously from your feedback as we strive to make MIT OCW as rich and useful as possible.

MIT OCW Development and Publishing Plan

		Discover/Build AY2002-2003	Publish/Expand AY2003-04 through AY2004-05	Enhance AY2005-06 through AY2006-07
	MIT OCW scope	Pilot version Representative sample courses from all five MIT schools Representative formats: lecture notes, video lectures, simulations, lab courses, more	Production version Hundreds of courses One or more complete curriculum tracks Enhanced search via metadata tags OKIcompliance	Near-full coverage of MIT curriculum (~2,000 courses) Regular update and refresh of all course materials
	Content collection and publication processes	Handcrafted/custom built Web sites Experimentation with: - content harvesting from existing MIT sources - copyright clearance process Metadata strategy	More uniform/more automated processes based on content mgmt tools Metadata tagging implementation	Production-level publishing operation
	Technology	Temporary approach based on: - HTML - standalone course sites - manual coding Implementation of longer term scalable infrastructure	XML Content mgmt tools Integration with related MIT learning management systems OKI compliance	Full-featured content management and publication production system
	Organization	Startup Staffing/team building Many outsourced functions	Stable organization Balance internal staff vs. outside service providers	Steady state structure More distributed responsibility vis-à-vis staff in MIT academic departments
	Evaluation	Basic usage statistics Usability test data	User profile data Information on modes and methods of use	Impact of MIT OCW
	Impact and benefits	Introduction to concept and character of MIT OCW Improvement in quality for some MIT course materials	Viable resource for adoption of courses/ curricula by others New service for MIT faculty in facilitation of course material development.	Dissemination of accumulated knowledge on best pedagogical practices based on user feedback Benchmark for curriculum content Model for sharing courseware at other institutions Deeper, richer content and more consistent features, look and feel among courses Permanent archive of course materials
		9/02 Pilot site released to public	9/03 Launch	9/07 Steady state