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From a consumer viewpoint, the Internet has a remarkable track record for changing the status quo regarding monopolies, oligopolies or business categories where there is a strong middleman component that adds to the final price of goods. There’s even a big word for it: disintermediation. According to this story at Business Week, disintermediation may be coming to a college bookstore near you.
In a unique twist on social media, Stanford University has launched a wiki on its public web site. Modeled after Wikipedia, the Stanford Wiki can be viewed by anyone but edited only by students. It only has eight entries so far, but categories have been set up for academics, campus life, food and drink, orientation and technology topics.
In a post a few weeks ago, I mentioned MIT’s incredible OpenCourseWare, a treasure trove of free online courses from one of the country’s top universities. Yesterday, Wendy Boswell at Lifehacker had a post that pointed to many more free online college courses from all over the country.