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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Giving education away for free, MIT-style - InfoWorld
The WSJ is running an interesting story a rising trend in elite universities: free education. MIT's OpenCourseWare Project was the first of the bunch, but others (like Berkeley, Yale, Bryn Mawr, etc.) are following suit: Following the lead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other highly competitive schools, more institutions are posting online everything from lecture notes to sample tests, and even making audio and video files of actual lectures publicly available. The sites attract anywhere from thousands to more than one million unique visitors each month.
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