How MIT plans to educate a billion people by 2021 – from forbes.com, an interview with Stephen Carson
Excerpt:
MIT OpenCourseWare’s goal for the next decade is to increase our reach to a billion minds. By 2021 we want to be the resource to bridge the global gap between human potential and opportunity, so that motivated people everywhere can improve their lives and change the world.
Additionally, we have identified four focus areas with the potential to help us reach our goal:
- Sharing OpenCourseWare: making content easy to find and adaptable – for example, through mobile optimization.
- Serving key audiences: Through the introduction of new courses and customization to meet the needs of people across a wide range of cultures and backgrounds.
- Creating open learning communities: Increasing connectivity between learners, allowing them to interact with one another to increase understanding of the material.
- Empowering educators worldwide: Enable educators to bring OpenCourseWare materials into classrooms and to those who don’t have internet access. Provide the educators with the tools that they need to serve students.