Monday, March 05, 2007

Higher Learning For Free

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) plans to provide free Internet access to its entire 1800 courses by the end of the year (story here via Digg). We reported on MIT’s OpenCourseWare last fall (see Big Universities = Big Business), but this is a considerable expansion of that program.

There are an incredible number of free e-learning opportunities available to anyone in the world that has a computer and Internet access. That is why MIT has also put its weight behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative sponsored through the U.N. This is a remarkable example of a great university doing something big to change the world.

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