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Science 31 August 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5535, p. 1618
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5535.1618
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MIT Offers World-Class Courses, for Free

Kathryn Brown

In the midst of the current boom in the for-profit e-learning market, one school has announced plans to teach the world--for free. This spring, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that it would post lecture notes, course outlines, or other teaching material for virtually every class offered, free of charge. The effort is the first of its kind for a university.

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