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MIT Puts All Its Courses Online

by Pat Coate | March 24, 2007
"One MIT calculation found that 17% are educators at other schools, 32% are students elsewhere, and 49% are self-learners."
- Steve Carson, program director

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - MIT last week revealed plans to make its entire 1,800-course curriculum available online by year's end.

Some 1.5 million independent learners log on to the MIT OpenCourseWare site each month, and more than 120 other universities have established similar sites.

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