However, as digital course materials progress and achieve the full creative, open, interactive manifestation that they can, competition to be the device of choice for education will become more and more intense.

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Thousands of lifelong learners are already taking to free course materials being offered on the web, course at MIT Open Courseware or Open Yale.

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