MIT Updates OpenCourseWare Statistics

Steve Carson is reporting on his OpenFiction blog that new statistics for MIT’s OpenCourseWare. Among other statistics, Carson states that there has been 8.5 million downloads of course ZIP files.

That 8.5 million zip files is particularly amazing to me. If you divide that number by the ~1,800 courses we have, that’s the equivalent of something on the order of 4,700 additional copies of the site out there on users’ hard drives–and who knows what secondary distribution of those has occured…

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