ArsDigita University
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ArsDigita University (ADU) was a one-year, intensive post-baccalaureate program in Computer Science based on the undergraduate course of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The majority of the instructors were professors from MIT or Caltech and the program was tuition free. After running from September 2000 through July 2001, seeing the first class to graduation, the dissolution of the ArsDigita Foundation (the nonprofit organization, begun by ArsDigita, which financed and supported the university) forced the program to shut down.
Some alumni hope to recreate that model for university education elsewhere, perhaps in different fields.
Course materials from the university's year are available for free use under the Open Content License from aduni.org (http://www.aduni.org), a website maintained by alumni of the university, where its course materials are hosted. That site exists to carry on the school's mission of supplying free education, and streams ~150GB/month of lectures to people around the world.
...to offer the world's best computer science education, at an undergraduate level, to people who are currently unable to obtain it. - from the ADU mission statement