Friday, April 10, 2026

Solano grass (Tuctoria mucronata): Thanks #MITOCW for the great: From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare Live Webcast https://www.youtube.com/live/BwTAavpUeW0 & from free @WorldUnivAndSch building on #CC4licensedMITOCW in 7 langs for #freeWUaSdegrees online from home in all 200 countries & 7159 living langs * * Further takeaways for WUaS -



Thanks #MITOCW for the great: From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare Live Webcast https://www.youtube.com/live/BwTAavpUeW0 & from free @WorldUnivAndSch building on #CC4licensedMITOCW in 7 langs for #freeWUaSdegrees online from home in all 200 countries & 7159 living langs

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"From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare."
Beginning at 7 am Pacific Time.
First session: Wednesday, April 8, 10:00am - 11:00am (EDT)
Where
https://www.youtube.com/live/BwTAavpUeW0?si=FWBMky9XfhRWgU4M & re 200 #WUaSunivs @WorldUnivAndSch ~

 
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From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare Live Webcast
https://www.youtube.com/live/BwTAavpUeW0?si=buAu556OfT52VTC9 

Celebrate 25 years of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)—a bold experiment that became a global movement. This symposium brings together learners, educators, supporters, open knowledge leaders, and the MIT community to honor OCW’s extraordinary impact and to chart the future of open education. Since its launch in 2001, OCW has empowered millions worldwide with free access to MIT course materials. This anniversary offers a moment to recognize the vibrant ecosystem that sustains open knowledge as a public good—and to reaffirm MIT’s mission-driven leadership in ensuring that high-quality learning remains accessible to all. Join us for an engaging, dynamic, and celebratory program featuring MIT leadership, pioneering faculty, global learners, open education innovators, and philanthropic partners. Together, we will explore OCW’s legacy, its role in the evolving open ecosystem, and the opportunities and challenges ahead. Symposium Program 10:00AM–10:10AM From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare Welcome remarks from Dimitris Bertsimas and Curt Newton. 10:10AM–10:30AM Opening Remarks from MIT President Sally Kornbluth President Kornbluth will reflect on OCW’s impact and the Institute’s leadership in open knowledge. 10:30AM–11:00AM OCW @ 25: A Story in Motion Premiere of a new short documentary celebrating OCW’s origins, influence, and global reach, followed by a panel with key MIT contributors who have helped shape OCW’s worldwide influence. 11:15AM–12:15 PM Learning Without Limits: How OCW Opens Opportunity for Curious Minds Worldwide A conversation with learners and educators whose stories reveal the transformative power of open knowledge—showing how OCW has sparked curiosity, expanded opportunity, and inspired people worldwide to imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities. 12:15PM–1:00PM Lunch Reception 1:00PM–1:45PM Knowledge Without Walls: MIT’s Ethos of Open A cross-campus look at MIT’s leadership in all forms of open knowledge—expanding the open education legacy of OCW and championing knowledge as a public good. This session highlights how practices in open source technologies, open access, open science and data, and open publishing have evolved across MIT and influenced global movements for accessible and equitable learning. 2:00PM–3:00PM Catalysts of Open: Philanthropy’s Role in the Open Education Movement A conversation with supporters and partners from the open education funding community about the essential role that philanthropy has played—and continues to play—in driving forward a global movement centered on access, equity, and the belief that knowledge should be a public good. 3:15PM–4:15PM The Future of MIT Open Education A forward-looking dialogue on the commitments and evolution of OCW and MIT’s open learning initiatives, including mobile learning, language translation, AI-enabled personalization and learning supports, and sustaining open education’s place in future knowledge landscapes.



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Dimitris Bertsimas 



Curt Newton
Director, MIT OpenCourseWare 
Leadership MIT OpenCourseWare 
cjnewton@mit.edu 
https://openlearning.mit.edu/about/our-team/curt-newton 



MIT President Sally Kornbluth 
sally.kornbluth@mit.edu



50 minutes 

Ana Bell 
John Gruber 
Christopher Capozzola



critiques voiced in recording 













Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuctoria_mucronata

https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Plants/Endangered/Tuctoria-mucronata

https://calscape.org/Tuctoria-mucronata-(Crampton's-Tuctoria)

https://fieldguide.mt.gov/ca/?species=tuctoria%20mucronata

https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=8174


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuctoria


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