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By Jamie Littlefield, About.com Guide to Distance Learning since 2004

Learn Free with Wikiversity

Sunday July 1, 2007
One of the online projects I’m most excited about is Wikiversity (off-site link) – a Wikimedia project dedicated to providing free educational material. Here’s how their website describes it:
“Wikiversity is a communal effort to learn and facilitate others' learning. You can use Wikiversity to find information or ask questions about a subject you need to find out more about. You can also use it to share your knowledge about a subject, and to build learning materials around that knowledge.”
Right now Wikiversity still seems like a construction zone, but the concept has a lot of potential. It won’t give you a degree, but it just may become the most helpful learning hub online.

You may also be interested in: Free Online Computer Classes, Free Online Language Classes, Free Online Journalism Classes, Free OpenCourseWare

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