Cap, Gown, Mouse.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes that the Internet can offer higher education to students in developing nations. The number of people seeking higher education worldwide has soared in recent years, increasing from 13 million in 1960 to 65 million in 1991. Although the develo...
| Publicado en: | Foreign Policy no. 134; pp. 102 - 104 |
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Foreign Policy
January/February 2003
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