Harvard and MIT announced a partnership to offer FREE online courses to students around the world. The initiative, known as edX, will be run by a non-profit organization controlled by the two schools.
http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement.html
Also, Princeton, Stanford, Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania announced that they would offer free Web-based courses through a for-profit company called Coursera.
http://www.coursera.org/
There’s also Udacity, formed by a Stanford professor and Khan Academy, which boasts 3,100 free educational videos across a variety of subjects.
http://www.udacity.com/us
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
