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** CLICK "MORE INFO" FOR ELABORATION "Project 10 to the 100th" Contest Entry Goal: To provide the world community with a Free College Education that would be equivalent to the average college education. The idea? Pull together the world's academic resources (aka - google) and create a new educational system that combines online college text book information, social interactivity between professors and students from around the world, video tutorials, student-to-student / member-to-member note sharing, q. & a. forums, & live multi-user chat and provides a richer, free education. The world community's knowledge and experience... freely shared between the entire community. Professors and knowledge contributors would benefit by sharing ad revenue fostered by Google Adsense throughout their online text, video, and multimedia lessons. In addition to the evolutionary tightening of the world community, national economic hurdles would be alleviated over time by the reduction of collective student financial debt. Let's put that into perspective: - Average tuition, room and board (for in-state students) at the nations four-year public colleges and universities for an entire academic year (2006-07): $14203 $14203 x 4 years = $56812 That is more than double the corresponding figure in 1990. There are 18.4 million students enrolled in the nations colleges and universities this fall. (This is up from 13.5 million 20 years ago.) 18.4 million students x $56812 (average college cost for 4 ... |