Colleges
Higher Ed. Racket: How Kids Are Paying a Fortune for Rip-off 'Prestige' Educations (9/2/2010)
University of Phoenix, DeVry: Scams That Leave You "Dumber" and Poorer (8/30/2010)
Open Education
The University of the People offers on-line, free tuition, higher education.
Did you know that MIT has a lot of their
curriculum on-line ?
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Eastern Connecticut State University
Central Connecticut State University
University of Connecticut - Storrs, Ct
Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
OnlineCSU, the online classroom of the four Connecticut State Universities
Click here for Connecticut Community and Technical Colleges
University of Phoenix Online University of Phoenix offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs, accessible online.
UC Berkeley is making entire video courses available on youtube.
See also the education page.
Text Books
Project Gutenberg has a catalog of 19,000 books which are free to download.
FreeLoad Press offers free downloadable text books (they include advertising.) Considering the cost of text books this is a very good idea although not a particularly new one. Local libraries also offer ebooks.
TextSwap (Trade textbooks on-line.)
Issues
The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
About academic freedom