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Emerging technologies librarian extraordinaire Meg Kribble, formerly of this address, has been Tweeting about MIT Open Courseware. The initiative at MIT to put all of their graduate and undergraduate course materials online has been in place since 2002. It sprang from a desire to help create an intellectual commons, fostering collaboration in education worldwide, and it's all free!  Currently, according to the website, there are 1800 classes available.  Most of these include homework problems and exams, some feature interactive online demonstrations.  As you might expect from one of the world's premiere academic institutions, the quality overall is very high and the variety staggering.  A certain for-profit purveyor of educational audio/visual materials which bills itself as presenting the experience of the best classrooms in the world had better look to its laurels.