Germany: Institute launches global educational web platform

A European higher education institution has joined some of America’s top universities in offering free online science courses to anyone anywhere in the world. Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute plans to start offering the courses next month to all who are interested.
As a forerunner in Europe, the institute wants to make worldwide interactive online courses, taught by its computer science professors, available via the web platform www.openHPI.de.
The courses will be offered in English. To take part, prospective students only have to register at the openHPI portal. There are no admission restrictions for the online courses, which are embedded in a social learning network.