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November 14, 2013 01:29 am GMT
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Facebook Launches Open Academy To Give Kids College Credit For Open Source Contributions
A perfect GPA isn't cool. You know what's cool? Advancing an Open Source project. To help computer science students prepare for jobs (and boost its own recruiting efforts) Facebook today publicly launches Open Academy. The partnership with premier CS universities sets up a special class where students get college credit for contributing to Open Source projects. After a successful pilot at Stanford last year, Open Academy is expanding to 22 universities.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/3y-7XnlRudc/
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