For six weeks this year you could have taken a Princeton course in Algorithms, Part I with world-renowned professors. The course's cost?
Plugging in a computer, or an investment of two weekly sessions of 75 minutes per week. Two thousand Google+ users recommended this
particular free course, run by the social enterprise Coursera. It has nearly 1.5m online students. That's a big classroom.
Of course, to attend Princeton in person is a different matter. You would need money and you would also need to be selected. Elite institutions make you wait to see if you have been chosen because marketing law is clear: the more elusive something expensive is, the more desirable it becomes.
By: Julia Hobsbawm, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/01/ideas-bank/sweep-aside-the-red-rope-for-open-sourced-elitism
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