A friend of mine emailed me concerning this piece with the comment - "This is what people who really care about learning should do."
He's right.
MIT's Open-Course Project. From Ho Chi Minh City to Nashville, Tennessee, students are flocking to MIT's new program to post about 2,000 classes on the Web, for free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open-source style. By David Diamond of Wired magazine. [Wired News]