I read about this new technology, as I like to call it, called “open courseware.” It allows anyone and everyone with an internet connection to access course material from over 150 universities around the world. Basically, major colleges and universities post their curricular material on the net and at no cost, anyone who’d like to, can access this information and learn from it. Some courses are in the form of video or audio and some are in transcripts. Originally, this was planned for educators to share material. But it did not take long before this quality material was discovered by far more people than anticipated. The great thing, in my opinion, is that about half of the readers, visit these sites for the sake of learning; which goes to show and proves me wrong in that there still are people out there who appreciate the truly meaningful and important things in this world. The resources are vast and are expanding at a rapid rate. MIT has all of its 1,800 courses available and Yale University has 7 out of a scheduled 30. …click here to read more

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Sony has announced that for the first time, it will release Blu-Ray players that will feature an ethernet port so that through a broadband connection, extras such as movie trailers and bonus features can be downloaded. The players will debut this summer and as you probably guessed, they will be pricey. A specific model will be released with an Ethernet port, but its ability to actually connect to the internet will be implemented later on; it will be in the form of a software upgrade called BD-Live. Another, more expensive model will be released at the same time that will feature both, the online connectivity as well as BD-Live.
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