This content was created by LARRUZ. This content was uploaded by LARRUZ. This is a YouTube video titled "Gilbert Strang: MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)" created on November 27, 2019, featuring a conversation between an unidentified speaker and Gilbert Strang discussing the impact and innovation of MIT OpenCourseWare, including the decision to make educational content freely available online.
The fact that there is thousands, you know, hundreds of thousands, millions of people that watch that video, I think that's. Yeah, that's really powerful. So how do you think the idea of putting lectures online, what really MIT OpenCourseWare has innovated.
That was a wonderful idea. You know I think the story that I've heard is the committee, committee was appointed by the President, President Vest at that time, a wonderful guy. And the idea of the committee was to figure out how MIT could make be like other universities, market the market work we were doing. And then they didn't see a way and after a weekend and they had an inspiration, came back to the present Vest and said what if we just gave it away? And he decided that was ok. Okay, good idea.
So you know, that's a crazy idea. That's. Yeah. If we think of a university as a thing that creates a product.
Yes.
Isn't knowledge, right the, you know, the kind of educational knowledge isn't the product and giving that away.
Yeah.
Are you surprised that it went through.
The result that, that he did it? Well, knowing a little bit present Vest, it was like him, I think and, and it was really the right idea, you know. You know MIT is a kind of, it's known for being high level technical things and this is the best way we can say, tell we can show what MIT really is like because the, in my case those 1806 videos are just teaching the class. They were there in 26, 100. They're kind of fun to look at. People write to me and say oh, you've got a sense of humor. But I don't know where that comes through somehow I'm friendly with the class, I like students and linear algebra, we got to give this subject most of the credit. It really has come forward in importance in these years.
