I might have mentioned MIT's OpenCourseWare program over a year ago when it was just gearing up for launch. Wired currently has a story about the impact that OpenCourseWare has already had after just one year. The story is basically this: MIT is providing the world the content of an MIT education for free. Full course text books, lecture notes and video, quizzes, and any other resources that can be digitized. Of course, this does not provide you with an MIT degree, nor do you get all of the intangibles that attending MIT provides for a tuition of $40,000 per year. Yet, I have to say after browsing the OpenCourseWare offerings, this is an powerful tool for the self-motivated learner and the resource short educators around the world.
As the Wired story says: "Someone should get a Nobel Prize for this".
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