Amazon eyes education, plans a free platform for learning materials

PanARMENIAN.Net - Following in the footsteps of Apple and Google, Amazon's another tech company with sights set on education. Earlier this month the e-commerce giant quietly opened the floodgates to its Amazon Education Wait List, which encourages educators to sign up for more information about an upcoming "revolutionary" platform. "The future of education is open," reads the landing page for Amazon's new venture, according to Engadget.

The message goes on to say, "Someday soon, educators everywhere will have free and unlimited access to first-class course materials from a revolutionary platform." Right now, there aren't many details beyond that, but Amazon is said to be planning to let educators upload, manage and share education materials through the service.