By Wilson, Mobile Computing News
The Internet’s greatest achievement is without doubt how it has democratised information and learning. Knowledge one previously could not acquire without spending hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds is now available ‘for free’ with a simple Google Search. But this unstructured approach to online education and knowledge acquisition was a bit hit-and-miss, particularly if you wanted to delve deeply into a specific knowledge vertical. This spurred on services like Academic Earth and iTunes U, which provide full online education video courses recorded at the most prestigious universities in the world for free. And the latter of the two, iTunes U, has just announced that it has crossed the 300 million downloads threshold – a quite remarkable feat in any way you spin it.
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