What if Online Education Were Free?

That is the concept and idea behind MIT’s decision to go with their OpenCourseWare (OCW) program and make available more than 2000 of their courses online at no charge. The courses will be open to the public—which means available across the Internet to people around the world, and all for no fee. Not all of these 2000 course will be available immediately. It will take MIT a few years to get them all ready and released.

Want to see what’s available? Head over to MIT’s website. Here’s the URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

It isn’t necessarily all it sounds at first. According to the MIT Open CourseWare website, their courses do not grant credit for or certification towards a degree, and there’s no access to MIT faculty. But still, if you just want to learn, they do provide the knowledge.