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.
University of the People Web Site
“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.”
While this idea is not new - it is one that has been gaining interest over the past few years. The problem is not so much the process but issues arise in the area of accreditation and academic standards that much be upheld for an academic insitution to be legit.
To often many start academic environments and soon after find out that they are not meeting the standard to provide a quality educaiton to its student population. It is for that reason that the DOE and Accreditation agencies are established.
At present it is possible for anyone to earn a legit Free college education, they just have to decide what program they have interest in and focus on the activities ot get in.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/education/26university.html?_r=1
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