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Harvard & MIT are launching edX, free education online for anyone in the world.

Watch the launch video below. Go to edX

edX joins Coursera.org, a similar venture involving Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan and Princeton University.

The goal according to edX is to educate a billion people online.

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