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OpenCourseWare: Timeline

2000

April - MIT OpenCourseWare announced on the front page of the New York Times

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

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

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

February - First MIT OpenCourseWare Consortium Meeting, Cambridge, MA
February - Utah State University OCW and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OCW launch
May - Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium launches with eight leading Japanese universities
June - Tufts University OCW and China Quality OCW launch
June - 1,700 total courses published by OCW Consortium
September - Second OCW Consortium Meeting, Logan, UT
October - 1,250 courses published on MIT OpenCourseWare
December - 5.3 million visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in 2005

February - ParisTech Graduate School OCW launches, the first European OCW
April - OCW Consortium portal launches
April - Third OCW Consortium Meeting, Kyoto, Japan
May - MIT OpenCourseWare establishes mirror site program
April - Chulalongkorn University begins Thai translations of MIT OpenCourseWare
June - 2,600 total courses published by OCW Consortium
July - MIT OpenCourseWare provides downloadable versions of courses
August - Notre Dame OCW and Open University Netherlands OCW launch
September - Fourth OCW Consortium Meeting, Logan, UT
October - 1,550 courses published by MIT OpenCourseWare
October - Open University United Kingdom OpenLearn OCW launches
November - MIT OpenCourseWare ships 100th mirror site
December - UC Irvine OCW launches
December - Open Yale Courses launches
December - 7.2 million visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in 2006

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

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

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

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

January - MIT OpenCourseWare launches OCW Scholar courses
January - Netease Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., becomes 16th sustaining member of the OCW Consortium
February - OCW LectureHall iPhone app becomes available
April - OCW celebrates a decade of open sharing
May - Ninth OCWC Meeting, Cambridge, MA, USA