[SSC] University of the People

[edwin at baconweb.co.uk]

'University of the People' - that's a great name.
 
Good website too, with interesting information about how they organise provision
(www.uopeople.org).
 



On 04 July 2011 at 09:37 David Young <lostmoya at gmail.com> wrote:


> I've just come across this, and thought it might be of interest to the list:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/university-of-the-people-tuition-free-higher-education/2011/06/14/AGRBFqUH_blog.html
> http://www.uopeople.org/
> > "The Pasadena, Calif., nonprofit university offers college coursework to
> > about 1,000 students worldwide essentially for free. The only charge is a
> > one-time application fee of $10 to $50, which varies according to the
> > comparative wealth of the student’s home nation.
> > Professors and deans donate their labors. Founder Shai Reshef has just two
> > paid academic employees. Students access and download assignments online.
> > Class discussions take place in old-fashioned text-based chat rooms, which
> > enable students to participate on the most marginal of computers.
> > Founded in 2009, University of the People claims to be the world’s first
> > tuition-free online university “dedicated to the global advancement and
> > democratization of higher education”. The institution exploits the growing
> > reach and falling cost of online study."


 
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