Massachusetts Institute of Technology: OpenCourseWare Program

I have participated extensively in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s OpenCourseWare program, which publishes the content of MIT
courses online and makes them available to anyone around the world. The
OCW program was proposed in 2000 after a yearlong debate about how to
use the Internet to benefit students, even those not enrolled at MIT,
and was officially announced in The New York Times shortly thereafter.
The first concept site launched two years later with material for 50
different MIT courses. The official site launched in October 2003 with
500 available classes. Over the course of the subsequent five years, MIT
published the materials for over 1,800 courses in 33 different
disciplines, with just about every curriculum available at the school.
OCW continues to update existing content and to add new courses when
they become available.

OCW has seen a great deal of media attention since its inception and has
also been the cause for multiple awards given to MIT, including the
Computerworld 21st Century Achievement Award in Education and Academia.
The same year, OCW was named the best application of information
technology in the field of education. The Center for Digital Education
recognized MIT’s OCW program as a winner of its Best of the Web contest,
a part of the Digital Education Achievement Awards. Through OCW, I have
completed courses in Advanced Algorithms, New Econometric Methods,
International Economics, and Economic Analysis for Business Decisions.
These classes have complemented over a decade of experience in foreign
exchange trading and investment banking, giving me and my firm,
Graceland Capital Partners Foreign Exchange (GCPfx), a true advantage in
the areas of proprietary trading, algorithmic trading, and prime
brokerage. The MIT coursework has also helped in the development of
GCPfx Global, an institutional platform for foreign exchange trading
developed my partner, Anthony Viggiano, and I two years ago.