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A College Education for All, Free and Online - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 5 views

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free online higher_education

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  • University of the People, a tuition-free online institution that enrolled its first class of students in 2009.
  • UoPeople students pay an application fee of between $10 and $50 and must have a high-school diploma and be proficient in English. There are also small fees for grading final exams. Otherwise, it's free.
  • UoPeople relies heavily on peer-to-peer learning that takes place within a highly structured curriculum developed in part by volunteers
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  • Rather than deploy the most sophisticated and expensive technology, UoPeople keeps it simple—everything happens asynchronously, in text only. As long as students can connect their laptops or mobile devices to a telecommunications network, somewhere, they can study and learn. For most of humanity, this is the only viable way to get access to higher education. When the university polled students about why they had enrolled, the top answer was, "What other choice do I have?"
  • The scale of the global population lacking access to higher education is gargantuan—Reshef puts it at 100 million people worldwide. It's outlandish to think that they'll get it through the construction of American-style colleges and universities—the most expensive model of higher education known to humankind, and getting more so every year. Low-cost, online higher-education tools are the future for most people
  • Undergraduates at the University of California at Berkeley can minor in global poverty, but Berkeley isn't using newly available online-learning tools to actually reduce global poverty by helping impoverished students earn college degrees.
  • Most elite American colleges are content to spend their vast resources on gilding their palaces of exclusivity. They worry that extending their reach might dilute their brand. Perhaps it might. Righteousness is easy; generosity is hard
  • josei09 on 21 Jul 11
     
    Describes University of the People, tuition-free, ony-text-based college degrees (just two as of now) that uses widely available OERs to provide higher education to vast numbers of students that have no access to traditional higher education
josei09

College for $99 a Month by Kevin Carey | Washington Monthly - 1 views

www.washingtonmonthly.com/...college_for_99_a_month.php

tutoring future-universities accreditation onlinecourses

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  • josei09 on 29 Jun 11
     
    Interesting story of StraighterLine, sort of the beginning of a "future" accredited university, and how established universities and accreditation agencies fought it back. This article is from October 2009, and it appears that by 2011 StraighterLine is flourishing again.
Keith Hamon

Online learning: Campus 2.0 : Nature News & Comment - 1 views

www.nature.com/...ne-learning-campus-2-0-1.12590

M. Mitchell Waldrop MOOCs elearning

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Mar 13
     
    Similar conversations have been taking place at major universities around the world, as dozens - 74, at the last count - rush to sign up. Science, engineering and technology courses have been in the vanguard of the movement, but offerings in management, humanities and the arts are growing in popularity (see 'MOOCs rising'). "In 25 years of observing higher education, I've never seen anything move this fast," says Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist at Stanford and one of the leaders of an ongoing, campus-wide discussion series known as Education's Digital Future.
josei09

Online College Courses - Distance Learning Courses - StraighterLine - 0 views

www.straighterline.com

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      josei09 on 29 Jun 11
       
      StraighterLilne offers online university courses for $39 - courses are evaluated by ACE, tutored online by mostly master's and PhD tutors from afililated company smarthinking, and accepted for credit at several established universities, including the online versions of Washington Governor's and Colorado State among others
John Graves

Carnegie Mellon University - The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the Effectiveness ... - 1 views

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education elearning

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  • John Graves on 27 Jul 11
     
    Research on accelerated on-line learning  Marsha Lovett, Oded Meyer, and Candace Thill
Vanessa Vaile

Blog U.: Reforming Higher Education: To What End? - University of Venus - Inside Higher Ed - 4 views

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whither-U academic labor highered NFM CFHE future of education innovation disruption MOOCs education ELearning

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  • Vanessa Vaile on 24 Aug 11
     
    column by Lee Skellerup Bessette on problems of change in higher ed, educators vs accountability by analytics & design by algorithm
John Graves

Apple University - 4 views

dl.dropbox.com/...AUCiPad.txt

apple ipad edumooc

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  • John Graves on 13 Jul 11
     
    List of links from Apple presentation on iPads in Tertiary Education.
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