From Reuters: "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will become by year's end the first U.S. university to offer all of its roughly 1,800 courses free on the Internet, a school official said on Friday."
"We started this project because MIT believes that one of the best ways to advance education around the world is through the Internet," said Anne Margulies, head of online curriculum.
So that's almost all of MIT's courses - for free - on the Internet. Users don't earn credit or get to contact faculty. But still, that's a lot of high quality content.
I work in an association that charges members for educational content. I'm still trying to decide what kind of impact this trend has on our organization and others in similar positions. But it's something I'll continue to monitor.
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