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BitTorrent and Khan Academy To Distribute Education

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 11, 2011 @08:18AM from the racing-to-zero-cost-education dept.

drDugan writes "BitTorrent, Inc. announced this morning that they have launched a partnership with the Khan Academy to distribute open education videos. They launched with more than 2,000 videos, covering high school and college level curriculum, across science, math, history, finance and test prep. All of the videos are free to download and open licensed with Creative Commons."

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*This* is the type of thing that makes me smile by StuartHankins · 2011-02-11 08:37 · Score: 4, Interesting

At a time when so many things are wrong in this world, Khan Academy is helping countless people improve their lives through education. The help of BitTorrent brings this to even more people. Truly awesome and many thanks!