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Barbara Lindsey

UN announces launch of world's first tuition-free, online university - 0 views

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  • Mr. Reshef said that this University opened the gate to these people to continue their studies from home and at minimal cost by using open-source technology, open course materials, e-learning methods and peer-to-peer teaching.
  • As part of this year’s focus on education, the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technology and Development (GAID) presented the newly formed University of the People, a non-profit institution offering higher education to the masses.
  • Students will be placed in classes of 20, after which they can log on to a weekly lecture, discuss its themes with their peers and take a test all online. There are voluntary professors, post-graduate students and students in other classes who can also offer advice and consultation.
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  • The only charge to students is a $15 to $50 admission fee, depending on their country of origin, and a processing fee for every test ranging from $10 to $100. For the University to sustain its operation, it needs 15,000 students and $6 million, of which Mr. Reshef has donated $1 million of his own money.
Barbara Lindsey

The Centered Librarian: YouTomb Monitors Videos Removed for Copyright Complaint - 0 views

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shared by Barbara Lindsey on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • A student organization at MIT called Free Culture has compiled a kind of online eulogizer for videos lost to copyright claims, tracking all the metadata from the video, including which user asked that it be taken down. It's called YouTomb, and in the last year it's learned a lot about what gets flagged, what stays, and what's wrong with the system.
  • Barbara Lindsey on 26 May 09
     
    A student organization at MIT called Free Culture has compiled a kind of online eulogizer for videos lost to copyright claims, tracking all the metadata from the video, including which user asked that it be taken down. It's called YouTomb, and in the last year it's learned a lot about what gets flagged, what stays, and what's wrong with the system.
Barbara Lindsey

Academic Evolution: Scholarly Mobile Computing: ArXiv hits the iPhone - 0 views

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  • Barbara Lindsey on 27 May 09
     
    Thanks to wakingtiger via Twitter
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