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Saturday, January 06, 2007


What an interesting and useful use of your bandwidth.
By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted.

The cost? It's all free of charge.

The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide, aims to disperse knowledge far beyond the ivy-clad walls of elite campuses to anyone who has an Internet connection and a desire to learn.
Well, duh. It's not like the enlightenment of the world is cloistered away in some dark hall somewhere guarded by monks with swords. As stated in Good Will Hunting:
Will: You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
This information is out there, with or without MIT. Are they going to confer degrees to people that have absorbed their material? That's the real question.



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