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thenewgreen  ·  4687 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Udacity
I definitely see this as the wave of the future. I'm hard pressed to think of many degrees that couldn't be obtained through a distance learning approach. Why shouldn't these things be open sourced to everyone? President Obama just got done with his SOTU speech in which he emphasized the retraining of displaced workers, "Our unemployment offices need to be re-employment offices" he went on to talk about a partnership between community colleges and companies that need skilled labor. This sort of open sourced free education seems an obvious move. I hope it gets popular support and even government funding.