Thursday, December 29, 2011

M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All - Forbes

M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All - Forbes
a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.


Could be incredibly valuable, most likely in exporting education to highly wired underdeveloped countries, perhaps Indonesia?

Common mistakes of right-wing and market-oriented economists? — Marginal Revolution

Common mistakes of right-wing and market-oriented economists? — Marginal Revolution

Along with its companion piece vs left wing economists, good place to start if one wants to dig deeper into what's (normatively, though probably only nominally...) right and wrong.