College Too Expensive? Try YouTube
By AP/JAKE COYLE
April 9, 2009; Time
In 2002, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched the MIT OpenCourseWare with the plan to make virtually all the school's courses available for free online.
As a visitor, one almost feels like you've somehow sneaked through a firewall. There's no registration and within a minute, you can be watching Prof. Walter Lewin demonstrate the physics of a pendulum by being one himself. (See the 50 best websites of 2008.)
Last December, MIT announced that OCW had been visited by more than 50 million people worldwide. But why would institutions that charges a huge price for admission give away their primary product?
Ben Hubbard, program manager of the webcast project for the University of California, Berkeley, believes it has always been a part of a university's...
