Students for Open and Universal Learning

SOUL (students for open and universal learning) is an organization that works to accelerate, experiment with, and build a stronger culture of open education at institutions of higher education, starting with MIT. We want to live in a world where anyone can learn anything from anywhere for free or at a low cost. To that end, our main goal in the short term is to make college-level course sequences like full undergraduate majors “realistically learnable” from free online resources, and to build tools and workflows to scale this process.

To see the course materials we’ve curated so far, look at the courses tab. For a deeper look at our vision and the details of what we’re building and why, read our manifesto.

If you are an educator and are open to putting your teaching materials online, we would love to help make the process very easy for you – email us at soul@mit.edu and we can have a short call to get started.

Note that while we collaborate closely with MIT Open Learning, we are a separate entity from MIT OpenCourseWare. SOUL currently operates under the fiscal sponsorship of The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 81-2908499) and additionally as a student club at MIT.

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