Open Courseware, Open Learning, and other acronymically tempting word combinations are being slung around by some big players in the educational community. Namely, Harvard Medical School, MIT, UC Berkeley, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon and a few others. There are quite a number of smaller schools in the same boat. Utah State University is a good example of a not-so-famous school with an extensive commitment to the Open Courseware Initiative.
What is this all about? Well, it's about sharing and improving curriculum for teachers and schools. For the rest of us it's about free education. Unless I need credit and/or teacher interaction - I can get a number of years of advanced education, including medical, without spending a dime.
Eventually, I'll share links.
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