Free Education On The Internet
Online education has become an option. One of the pioneering universities to sponsor free education in management is the School of Business and Economics at Umeå University. Free education has become available through several websites with some resembling the courses of study of accredited universities. Online education faces barriers such as institutional adoption, license or copyright restrictions, incompatibility and educator awareness of available resources.
Due to the extensive requirements of resources for online education, many open community projects have been initiated. Specifically, the Wikimedia Foundation has developed a project devoted to free online educational resources, Wikiversity, and recently, several other sites for specific topics have developed. MyMCAT was designed as a free community project to aid students wishing to take the MCAT.
"The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere." (from Khan Academy's website). The non-profit delivers this 'world-class education' by using informative 10 minute videos with topics that mostly covers areas that are math and science related.
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