{"id":10341,"date":"2012-04-13T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=10341"},"modified":"2012-04-13T02:13:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T07:13:25","slug":"how-to-take-college-courses-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/internet-2\/webapps\/how-to-take-college-courses-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"No Student Loans Needed For These Free Online College Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>College tuition may be rising<\/a> in cost at a rate faster than even medical expenses, but several entrepreneurs want to offer you free courses via the internet. Udacity<\/a> accepts new student enrollments for any of six computer software-related courses beginning on April 16. The site began last November, when Stanford computer science professor Sebastian Thrun resigned, with intentions of starting the new online education venture. Course CS101, titled “Building a Search Engine”, teaches the Python programming language and has already completed its first class with overall positive reviews from students. Blogger Jeffery Pomerantz<\/a> even said, “I\u2019m finding the course so compelling that I want to work on it all the time. I had a hard time this week stopping once I\u2019d started.”<\/p>\n MIT dabbles in the concept of free online courses as well, offering their Circuits and Electronics<\/em> class via MITx<\/a>, with a promise of more free courses to come. MIT is already known for their pioneering effort in offering viewable online versions of over 200 of their classes via OpenCourseWare<\/a>, but the MITx project features true student to professor interaction and awards certificates to those who master the material.<\/p>\n