Open-Source University

Brilliant! Plans are underway to open the first free, online university for people across the globe. While rigid academics might balk at the idea, the fact remains that post-secondary education is and will remain out of reach for the vast majority of people who need it most. From the article:

An Israeli entrepreneur with decades of experience in international education plans to start the first global, tuition-free Internet university, a nonprofit venture he has named the University of the People.

“The idea is to take social networking and apply it to academia,” said the entrepreneur, Shai Reshef, founder of several Internet-based educational businesses.

“The open-source courseware is there, from universities that have put their courses online, available to the public, free,” Mr. Reshef said. “We know that online peer-to-peer teaching works. Putting it all together, we can make a free university for students all over the world, anyone who speaks English and has an Internet connection.”

via Israeli Entrepreneur Plans a Free Global University That Will Be Online Only – NYTimes.com.

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