MIT, the famed research university located in Cambridge, Mass., offers MITOPENCOURSEWARE, free video, audio, and print lectures and course material taken straight from the school’s classes. Those resources target K-12 teachers and students.

MIT is committed to advancing education and discovery through knowledge open to everyone.

OCW shares free resources from more than 1800 courses spanning MIT's entire curriculum uncluding highlights for high school.

No excuses now, students with initiative and ambition, for limiting learning to classroom instruction from "the best."

And "Yes, I agree," MIT's expanding offer appears as another way for teachers assist pre-college students to distinguish themselves in competition for top tier higher education. So, crank up those Tablet PCs, MIDs, UMPCs and other mobile PC in order to squeeze in more learning into daily school schedules and assignments. Someone's doing it.

Kudos, MIT, for setting a newer, higher standard for public education.

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