06/16/2026
Wondering what to do with your teens summer? How about a free class at MIT?
MIT has spent more than two decades building one of the world's largest free learning libraries through its OpenCourseWare initiative, giving anyone with an internet connection access to thousands of university-level courses at no cost.
From computer science and engineering to physics, mathematics, business, and the humanities, students around the world can learn directly from MIT course materials that were once available only to enrolled students.
The project has helped millions of people gain access to high-quality education regardless of their location or financial situation, proving that knowledge can be shared on a global scale.
If top universities made all their courses free online, how much could it transform education worldwide?