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Hello. My name is Krishna Rajagopal and I'm MIT's Dean for Digital Learning. Ordinarily, I would be recording this update for the OCW community from our offices on campus but as these are not ordinary times I find myself delivering this message to you from my home in the same way that so many MIT faculty along with educators all around the world are right now teaching their students from home during this global pandemic. From the beginning, OpenCourseWare was meant to be a resource for anyone who wants to learn, whenever and wherever they need it. We've always believed in the urgency of our mission but never before have we seen the stakes rise so immediately as we have these past several weeks. With millions even billions of people around the world asked to stay apart, stay at home, and adapt to sudden changes in the way we all live, work, connect, and learn. This has brought particular challenges for educators and needs for all of us as learners. Here at MIT ...

Hello, everyone. Welcome. I'm Krishna Rajagopal, MIT's Dean for Digital Learning. And I'm here to welcome everyone to this joyous occasion as OpenCourseWare turns 20. Today, we celebrate OCW's first 20 years, and look ahead to the potential and the plans for OCW, and the entire ecosystem of open educational resources that OCW sits within, in its next 20. The mission of OCW since its founding was to unlock knowledge and empower minds by publishing materials from virtually all MIT courses, and extend the reach of those materials via the OER movement which OCW played a key role in seeding. Charles Vest, who is the president of MIT who launched OCW 20 years ago, spoke at that time about how surprising and audacious the vision of OCW that came to him from a founding group of MIT faculty members was. Put all of our materials on the internet, openly? This came as a big surprise to President Vest 20 years ago. One way to see how right the faculty were back then, t...