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<span>'University of the People' - that's a great name.</span>
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Good website too, with interesting information about how they organise provision (
<a target="blank" href="http://www.uopeople.org/">www.uopeople.org</a>
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On 04 July 2011 at 09:37 David Young <lostmoya@gmail.com> wrote:
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I've just come across this, and thought it might be of interest to the list:
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/university-of-the-people-tuition-free-higher-education/2011/06/14/AGRBFqUH_blog.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/university-of-the-people-tuition-free-higher-education/2011/06/14/AGRBFqUH_blog.html</a>
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<a href="http://www.uopeople.org/">http://www.uopeople.org/</a>
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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.
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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.
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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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