April 7, 2011

Proprietary in his beta phase, Bill Gates 2.0 is all about sharing the wealth. And he is asking his latest crop of higher ed benefactors to do likewise.

Next Generation Learning Challenges, or NGLC — a grant program run by Educause and fueled mostly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — gave the bulk of its first round of “challenge grants” to university-led projects aimed at either increasing access to college degree programs or supplying free, top-flight online learning materials to colleges that could not otherwise afford them.

The article notes the emphasis on open courseware projects that can be adopted by many colleges.

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