12 Universities Offer Free Online Education

I meant to run this a couple of weeks ago and there have been so many interesting pieces that have crossed my desk that it got neglected. This is from the Wall Street Journal  (my favorite newspaper).

12 of our top universities are offering free courses online. They include the California Institute of Technology; Duke University; the Georgia Institute of Technology; Johns Hopkins University; Rice University; the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the University of Washington; and the University of Virginia.

 There have been many schools that have offered courses online but not free. Perhaps this is the thing needed to democratize education and offereconomically disadvantaged student the opportunity to suceed.