Free as in Free Beer?

MIT for free:

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will become by year's end the first U.S. university to offer all of its roughly 1,800 courses free on the Internet, a school official said on Friday.

"We started this project because MIT believes that one of the best ways to advance education around the world is through the Internet," said Anne Margulies, head of online curriculum.

Online students will not be able to earn an MIT degree or have contact with faculty at the university, located across the river from Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

No contact with the faculty? Obviously, they overlook the stalking power of the internet. Pretty soon the profs won't be able to go out without the guy in the costume at Chuck E Cheese's asking, "About this Bremsstrahlung radiation thing...."