MIT and Stanford expand their online course offerings

[thewayne]

Broader availability to education is a good thing. I was reading that in some third world countries that a smartphone is a lot of people's only computer, I hadn't thought about that in terms of a tech revolution.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/12/20/198231/mit-to-expand-online-learning-and-offer-certificates

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/23/2159216/stanfords-free-computer-science-courses

Comments

[silveradept]

Indeed. It's too bad they only offer it as a certificate-type program - it would be pretty good to be able to actually have a degree related to the coursework.