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Mar 01
2010
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Online Harvard and MIT Courses for Free! - From the ArchivePosted by: JC Tirado Tagged in: Higher Education
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The Web brings the ability to disseminate high-quality materials at almost no cost, leveling the game. This is changing the culture of how we think about knowledge and how it should be shared and who are the owners of knowledge. Still MIT's and Harvard complete online courseware may be free, yet an MIT or Harvard degree still costs upward of $198,000. College tuition has gone up more than any other good or service since 1990, and our nation's students and graduates hold hundreds of billions of dollars in outstanding student-loan debt.
That's why the architects of the education 2.0 model predict that traditional universities will find themselves on the wrong side of history, alongside newspaper chains and record stores. "If universities can't find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them," professor David Wiley of Brigham Young University has written, "universities will be irrelevant by 2020."
Take a look to the more famous FREE Higer Education Websites and judge for yourself;
http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html
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