[UbuntuWomen] UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university

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Hi Yolynne, 

I've found the url (
> http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28702&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)is broken.the warning is :
Not Found
The requested
URL /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28702&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html was not found on this server.

but this link http://www.uopeople.org/Default.aspx is ok. 
thanks for the info :)


Pada hari Jumat, tanggal 29/05/2009 pukul 09:02 +0800, Yolynne Medina
menulis:
> FYI
> 
> http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28702&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
> 
> UN announces launch of world’s first tuition-free, online university
> 
> 27-05-2009 (New York)
> 
> Link to the University of the People:
> http://www.uopeople.org/Default.aspx
> - Hide quoted text -
> 
> A leading arm of the United Nations working to spread the benefits of
> information technology announced last week the launch of the first
> ever tuition-free online university. 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.
> 
> “This year the Global Alliance has focused its attention on education
> [and] on how ICT can advance education goals around the world,” Serge
> Kapto from GAID told a press conference at UN Headquarters in New
> York.
> 
> For hundreds of millions of people around the world higher education
> is no more than a dream, Shai Reshef, the founder of the University of
> the People, told reporters. They are constrained by finances, the lack
> of institutions in their region, or they are not able to leave home to
> study at a university for personal reasons.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Admission opened just over two weeks ago; and without any promotion
> some 200 students from 52 countries have already registered, with a
> high school diploma and a sufficient level of English as entry
> requirements.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
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