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Take Ivy League Classes for Free With Open Course Sharing

An Ivy League education will cost you a handsome 50 grand a year, but -- thanks to a growing trend in online resource sharing -- you can now access the exact same course materials as Harvard students, without spending a dime. The trend began back in 2000, when MIT established the first OpenCourseWare (OCW) site, where average users could access class syllabi and lectures within a mouse's click. ...

Professors Posting Pricey Textbooks on the Web

Those of you who have been out of school for a while may not realize just how expensive college textbooks have become. Truth is, most college students could probably feed themselves fillet mignon for a year with what they pay for textbooks. The costly textbook market is starting to come under pressure from both the academics who author the texts and groups who believe knowledge and information ...