State of Minnesota bans free online education

skiminnesota

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"Notice for Minnesota Users:

Coursera has been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so. If you are a resident of Minnesota, you agree that either (1) you will not take courses on Coursera, or (2) for each class that you take, the majority of work you do for the class will be done from outside the State of Minnesota."

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/minnesota-gives-coursera-the-boot-citing-a-decades-old-law/40542

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/18/minnesota_bans_coursera_state_takes_bold_stand_against_free_education.html

of all the idiotic things my home state has done....... this might just take the cake.
 
of all the stupid things we have done... but yah, you guys should see some of the posters we have up, like vote no on voter ID, and stuff. on every single friggin yard
 
not really relevant but relating to minnesota's politics - question: I live in rochester and we're a "republican island" I'm not personally republican but evidently Rochester has a lot. There are still more democrats. What's it like in other parts of the state?
 
the only really hardcore democratic area is the metro (uptown minneapolis and st. paul, some other pockets of the metro)
 
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