What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside Walled Gardens?
Nov 09, 2021•30 min
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Episode description
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.
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