Miyagawa receives President's Award from the OCW Consortium    

MIT SHASS Professor of Linguistics Shigeru Miyagawa has been selected to receive the President's Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence for his contributions to the global OpenCourseWare and Open Education movements.

Miyagawa, who is also head of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, has been a key member of the faculty team that has nurtured the development of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), has contributed a significant amount of his own course materials to the site, and has traveled extensively to spread the practice of openly sharing educational materials globally.