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MIT OpenCourseWare YouTube channel is the YouTube-distribution channel for MIT OpenCourseWare content (the foundational open-educational-resources initiative covered separately under mooc-mit-ocw), founded in 2005 to distribute archived MIT undergraduate-and-graduate course lecture-recordings to a global audience. The channel has grown to ~6+ million subscribers as of 2024 with substantial archived video content covering approximately 2,500+ courses across MIT's major departments.\n\nThe video content includes substantial archived lecture-recordings from authentic MIT courses (rather than purpose-built MOOC content), substantial MIT-faculty-led courses including the substantial Walter Lewin physics lectures (the substantial Walter Lewin Physics 8.01 and 8.02 video-lecture series that became among the most-watched physics-lecture content on YouTube before MIT removed the videos from official MIT-OCW labels following Walter Lewin's post-2014 sexual-harassment investigation, though substantial third-party copies remain available), Gilbert Strang's linear-algebra lectures (Math 18.06 Linear Algebra), Eric Lander's introductory biology (Biology 7.01x), plus substantial post-2010 MIT-faculty-led courses including substantial MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence (the foundational pre-deep-learning AI course taught by Patrick Henry Winston), MIT 6.S191 Introduction to Deep Learning, plus broader MIT-CS-and-engineering content.\n\nFor a globally-mobile professional, MIT OpenCourseWare YouTube provides substantial free-of-charge MIT-faculty-grade video content. Indian-learner engagement is substantial particularly among Indian engineering-and-science students preparing for graduate-school-applications plus the substantial Indian-academic community using MIT OCW for self-study. Cross-references: ytedu-mit-ocw-yt is the YouTube-distribution complement to mooc-mit-ocw which covers the broader MIT OpenCourseWare initiative and ocw.mit.edu integrated platform.