Timeline
From OCWCWiki
1995
??? - Stephen Downes' Guide to the Logical Fallacies (http://www.fallacies.ca/) posted to the web
1998
??? - Michael Rappa founds Open Courseware Laboratory (http://open.ncsu.edu/about.html) at North Carolina State University to invent novel ways of using the Internet to promote the open exchange of knowledge within the academic community.
2000
Sept - OU UK launched Open Source Teaching Project (http://ostp.open.ac.uk/project.htm)
Oct – OpenCourseWare concept recommended by MIT faculty committee
2001
Apr – MIT OpenCourseWare announced on the front page of the New York Times
2002
Oct – MIT OpenCourseWare proof-of-concept site launched
2003
July – Universia Spanish and Portuguese translations of MIT OpenCourseWare begun
Sept – Fulbright Economics Teaching Program OCW (Vietnam) launches, the first East Asian OCW
Oct – Official MIT OpenCourseWare site launch/500 total MIT OpenCourseWare courses
Oct – 300,000 visits to MIT OpenCourseWare in first month
2004
Feb – OOPS Traditional Chinese translations of MIT OpenCourseWare begun
June – CORE Simplified translations of MIT OpenCourseWare begun
June – MIT students with the Africa Internet Technology Initiative (AITI) use MIT OpenCourseWare to teach Java programming in Ghana and students with MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) use MIT OpenCourseWare to work with students and faculty in China
Oct – 900 total MIT OpenCourseWare courses
Oct – MIT OpenCourseWare featured on CNN International
Oct – 750,000 monthly visits to MIT OpenCourseWare and translations
2005
Feb – First MIT OpenCourseWare Consortium Meeting, Cambridge, MA
Feb – Utah State University OCW, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OCW launch
May – Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium launches with 8 leading Japanese universities
June – MIT AITI and MISTI students again use MIT OCW in summer programs
June – Tufts University OCW, China Quality OCW (CORE) launch
June – 1,700 total MIT OpenCourseWare Consortium courses
Sept – Second OCW Consortium Meeting, Logan, UT
Oct – 1,250 total MIT OpenCourseWare courses
Nov – 1,000,000 monthly visits to MIT OpenCourseWare and translations
2006
Feb – ParisTech “Graduate School” OCW launches, the first European OCW
April – OCW Consortium portal (http://ocwconsortium.org) launches
April – Third OCW Consortium Meeting, Kyoto, Japan
May – MIT OpenCourseWare establishes mirror site program
April – Chulalongkorn University Thai translations of MIT OpenCourseWare begun
June – MIT AITI and MISTI students use MIT OpenCourseWare for a third year in summer programs
June – 2,600 total OCW Consortium courses
July – MIT OpenCourseWare provides zip downloads
Aug – Notre Dame OCW, Open University Netherlands OCW launch
Sept – Fourth OCW Consortium Meeting, Logan, UT
Oct – 1,550 total MIT OpenCourseWare courses
Oct – Open University United Kingdom OpenLearn OCW launches
Nov – MIT OpenCourseWare ships 100th mirrors site
Dec – UC Irvine OCW launches
2007
Jan – 2,000,000 monthly visits to MIT OpenCourseWare and translations
Jan – MIT OpenCourseWare featured in the Christian Science Monitor
Apr – University of Southern Queensland OCW launches, bringing OCW to Australia
Mar – MIT OpenCourseWare in Reuters, Wall Street Journal
May – Fifth OCW Consortium Meeting, Santander, Spain
May – Universia OCW launches with 10 leading Spanish universities
June – MIT AITI and MISTI students use MIT OpenCourseWare for a fourth year in summer programs
June – 4,200 total OCW Consortium courses
June – Korea University OCW launches
Aug – 3,000,000th zip file downloaded off the MIT OpenCourseWare site (equal to 1,700 copies of the entire site)
Aug – National Chiao Tung University OCW (Taiwan) launches
Sept – 45 million total visits to MIT OpenCourseWare content
Sept – MIT OpenCourseWare Web site redesign
Sept – Sixth OCW Consortium Meeting, Logan, UT
Sept – Utah OCW Consortium launches
Oct – 5,000 total OCW Consortium courses
Oct – Launch of Delft University of Technology OpenCourseWare
Nov – UMass Boston OCW launches
Nov – 1,800 total MIT OpenCourseWare courses, representing virtually the entire curriculum
