Web-based education startup Coursera offers university-level courses “for anyone to take, for free” – anyone, that is, except residents of the US state of Minnesota, where free online education has been declared illegal.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Minnesota Office of Higher Education has told Coursera that it must not offer its free courses in the Land of 10,000 Lakes because it has not received authorization from the state government to do so.
More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/19/minnesota_bans_free_online_education/
