The latest trend in online education is taking the academic world by storm.
From around 2011, a group of U.S. universities or professors launched start-ups to provide courses taken at elite universities free to anyone with Internet access.
By signing on to a website that merely requires user name, email address and password, people can take the massive open online courses, or MOOCs provided by renowned professors at top-tier universities, including Harvard and Stanford.
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