Dear John, Please help keep OCW vibrant and relevant for the long-term. Become an OCW Sustainer. With your monthly contribution, OCW will be able to remain an invaluable, up-to-date resource for students seeking to supplement their studies, educators who want to improve their teaching, and learners who choose to broaden their professional skills.
What Your Monthly Contribution Makes Possible
As teaching at MIT continues to incorporate new educational technologies, we want to make sure we can fully capture this shifting pedagogical style on OCW. Innovating, improving and enhancing all that OCW offers can grow at a steady pace becauseyour recurring gift ensures our future.
Examples of how we put your monthly contribution to work include:
$5/Month - Provides OCW to institutions in remote, bandwidth-constrained regions through our mirror site program. There are more than 365 institutions that benefit from accessing OCW locally without internet connectivity. $10/Month – Adds subtitles to one lecture video or creates an image enabling publication under a creative commons license $25/Month – Helps pay for web hosting, allowing millions of people every month to access our content from anywhere in the world. $35/Month – Supports innovations like an interactive timeline to understand how a course was taught, or map OCW resources to other open source content like Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and Wolfram.
Please consider becoming an OCW Sustainer and a vital member of our community. Your monthly gift—in whatever amount you choose—will be transferred each month from your credit card or bank account. And you can choose to change or suspend your contributions at any time.
Benefits of becoming an OCW Sustainer: You have the satisfaction of knowing you are part of a community of supporters that makes OCW available to users everywhere to pursue their educational passions. You will never receive a solicitation request while you remain an OCW Sustainer. You will be acknowledged on OCW as an OCW Sustainer. As a thank you, you will receive a beautiful coloring book page to download and color whenever you’d like. Wait. A coloring book page? (Become a Sustainer and find out!) We know that the vast majority of visitors to our site cannot afford to donate, and an important part of our core mission is to provide access to exactly these audiences. However, if you can afford to contribute to OCW, please think aboutbecoming an OCW Sustainer. Your monthly support at any level makes a tremendous long-term impact.
Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Cecilia d'Oliveira Associate Dean of Digital Learning MIT OpenCourseWare
