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What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside Walled Gardens?
Published 4 years, 6 months ago
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Free online courses have become big business in recent years, offered by companies that work to upsell learners to paid products. But that's not how they started out. Stephen Downes, a pioneer of open online education, argues for eliminating things like free registration to get to free course materials, to better spread the ideas.