Harvard and MIT are offering free online classes, so tens of thousands of people still stinging from getting rejected a year, a decade or a generation ago can log on, take a class and tell themselves (and their friends) that they could have hacked it at the best schools in the country.
But if Harvard and MIT hold true to their commitment to share the technology and the wisdom they get by developing online learning platforms, there could be a bigger benefit for higher education as a whole: a drastic improvement in the six-year graduation rate.
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