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http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,55507,00.html

All the World's an MIT Campus
Kendra Mayfield

For about $27,000 a year, elite students can earn a degree at MIT, one of the most prestigious schools in the nation. And now the rest of the world can access MIT's curriculum on the Web for free, no tests or admissions essays required. Earlier this week, MIT posted a sampling of 32 classes in 17 departments on its OpenCourseWare (OCW) website, a pilot offering to the public. Over the next decade, the university will post lecture notes, assignments, syllabi, tutorials, video simulations and reading lists from over 2,000 courses on the site. No credit will be offered for online course materials, however....

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