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Harvard And MIT Create EdX To Offer Free University Courses To The World. One of the America’s most prestigious universities is offering free online courses to anyone in the world, providing they have an Internet connection. Harvard University has teamed up with Massachusetts Institution of Technology in an "historic" partnership to launch the online education centre "edX". The project, which launches this autumn, aims to offer education on a mass scale. Anant Agarwal, president of edX, called the initiative a "revolution". "There is a revolution dawning in Boston and beyond.

Agarwal, who dubbed the partnership the "next big thing", says edX will be available to anyone with an Internet connection and is currently absolutely free. "Our goal is to educate 1bn people around the world," he added. Harvard's president Drew Faust appeared equally enthusiastic about the project, telling the conference, which marked the launch, that edX would "shape the world". Harvard and MIT have ploughed $60m (£38m) into launching the collaboration. Scales. No Excuse List. Oklahoma - United States Ancestry. Task. Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures. Autism Today. 48 Days LLC | Dan Miller. MomAdvice: The Community of Tips, Advice and Articles for Moms.

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5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. If you want to learn anything chances are there is somebody creating content about the subject and sharing it with the world at no cost.

Self Motivation is Not Optional Taking this kind of approach to educating yourself requires an extremely high degree of self motivation. 1. 2. Want to learn how to get in shape? 3. 4. 5. Education as we know it is changing rapidly.