Not to be confused with one of the largest political groups on Grounds, Udemy is rather a San Francisco-based company entering that most unprofitable business: providing services for free online.
The website, which also hosts monetized courses, last Thursday announced The Faculty Project, a new program which it will use to partner with select university faculty across numerous disciplines and states to provide students with courses whose only prerequisite is Internet access. The launch comes as good news to students searching for the disinterested, Platonic ideal of knowledge, or a good deal.
The academic thought experiment of passing out free material, for instance on iTunesU, is an online avenue already paved with limited success but increasing momentum. The Faculty Project is different insofar as it is a systematic attempt on the part of a for-profit company to recruit faculty to teach under its digital banner
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