Not that it would possibly interest you for one single moment, Universities are now starting to provide free video & audio ‘courses’ for those who wish to have them.
Yale, M.I.T, Vanderbilt, Caltech, UCLA, UC San Diego, Harvard, Oxford, York College NY, UC Berkley et.al are providing access to video and audio-only lectures, searchable transcripts, problems and other materials for the university’s most popular courses.
This is a big plus, and a sign of progress for my antiestablishmentarianist or at least anti-commericialisational views towards higher education. Bring back Plato’s Academy!

Yale is one of a number of schools, including Harvard and MIT, that have already made courses available online. Harvard’s courses are offered for a fee through the Harvard Extension School, while MIT is a member of the international Open Courseware Consortium, which offers different schools’ courses free of charge.

I think that more & more Universities will do this kind of thing, in an attempt to lure students to part with their mega-bucks in an ever increasingly competitive cash seeking education system. I hope that this competitiveness will eventually spawn free degree certificates to accompany the free lectures that are made available. However, as yet, the Universities are clearly not that stupid. Let us give it just enough time. Happy studying people, and please save your parent’s ‘hard earned money’.

God Bless EVERYone!