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DISQO is an open education community for teaching, collaborating and learning.
Our mission is to give everyone access to a first rate education. Anyone can benefit from the free online lessons, courses and curricula published here.

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MEDIA RELEASE: DISQO Beats the Education Barrier By : disqo Posted on : 30 August 2010, DISQO beats the education barrier A free education is just an internet connection away thanks to DISQO, an innovative new website that gives on demand access to courses and lectures from the world's leading universities and schools. All lessons are instantly available to students for free, giving children and adults access to a world class education whatever their circumstances, wherever they are on the globe. The website is constantly in the process of...
DISQO statistics module is working! By : disqo Posted on : 13 July 2010, Ben "IT hero" Smith has developed a great little module for better tracking of just about anything you would want to track on DISQO. Number of students, average time a lesson or course takes to complete, how long you have studied for, when and what etc etc. Take a look, it's magnificent! There are now orange stats buttons on most pages on DISQO that you can click to be taken to a breakdown of the relevant page's data in graphical form. Don't act like you're not impressed.
Accuracy and Quality Assurance in DISQO - Holocaust Denial, Climate Change & Bad Teachers By : disqo Posted on : 24 June 2010, One of the first things I am often asked when talking about DISQO is how to maintain good quality when anyone can publish a lesson. There are two interconnected issues here. One is the overall quality of the lesson: how well a student learns by taking the lesson. The other issue is a question of the accuracy of what is actually getting taught: is someone teaching eager learners that Jews are born evil, whiny folk, or that dinosaur bones were put there by Jesus to test our faith, or that the...
Rainy Day Silver Lining in Japan By : disqo Posted on : 16 June 2010, Working hard on DISQO, here are some things that make it easier when it's raining outside:
This is my first blog entry By : benbo4 Posted on : 01 June 2010, here go's
Education: out of the darkness and into the light. By : disqo Posted on : 31 January 2010, "In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program around is a world class education." - Barrack Obama. State of the Union Address, 27 January 2010. We agree. And this is precisely the reason we created DISQO: to give everyone access to a world class education.