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Jochen Fromm-4

Online university

I am currently reading a book about Alexander and
Wilhelm von Humboldt, two German scientists of the
19th century. Wilhelm von Humboldt founded the
Humboldt Universität 1810 in Berlin.

Recently you discussed a city university for Santa Fe.
In the 21st century, wouldn't it be nice to have a real
online university available to the whole world? Of
course there are Berkeley Webcasts and MIT Open
Courseware, there are social communities of scientists,
and there is Wikipedia. But there is no site which
offers and combines all of these features.

What do you think? Anyone interested? I am
programming social communities in Ruby on Rails
for a living, and could help building a suitable site.

-J.

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Alfredo Covaleda-2

Re: Online university

Hola

Have you checked the recently opened University of the People http://www.uopeople.com/ . Recently means last week. Are you talking about a model like this.

Alfredo

2009/5/8 Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]>

I am currently reading a book about Alexander and
Wilhelm von Humboldt, two German scientists of the
19th century. Wilhelm von Humboldt founded the
Humboldt Universität 1810 in Berlin.

Recently you discussed a city university for Santa Fe.
In the 21st century, wouldn't it be nice to have a real
online university available to the whole world? Of
course there are Berkeley Webcasts and MIT Open
Courseware, there are social communities of scientists,
and there is Wikipedia. But there is no site which
offers and combines all of these features.

What do you think? Anyone interested? I am
programming social communities in Ruby on Rails
for a living, and could help building a suitable site.

-J.

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Gary Schiltz-4

Re: Online university

At the risk of sounding like an ivory tower, anti-capitalist prig (I'm not in academia, and worked in industry for more than 20 years), I doubt I would support the motives of a "university" whose internet presence has a .com suffix. What were they thinking?

;; Gary

On May 8, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote:

Hola

Have you checked the recently opened University of the People http://www.uopeople.com/ . Recently means last week. Are you talking about a model like this.

Alfredo

Alfredo Covaleda-2

Re: Online university

Gary,

Maybe you are right, but look that Open University, for example, haven't got edu domain. We'll look forward to know how University Of People evolves and growth. Maybe it becomes in something interesting. Enrollment for fall semester is open. Look at this program.

http://www.uopeople.org/ACADEMICS/Programs/ComputerScienceProgram/tabid/218/Default.aspx

Alfredo

2009/5/8 Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]>

At the risk of sounding like an ivory tower, anti-capitalist prig (I'm not in academia, and worked in industry for more than 20 years), I doubt I would support the motives of a "university" whose internet presence has a .com suffix. What were they thinking?

;; Gary

On May 8, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote:
Hola

Have you checked the recently opened University of the People http://www.uopeople.com/ . Recently means last week. Are you talking about a model like this.

Alfredo

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Robert J. Cordingley

Re: Online university

The Open University is based in the UK so as with other UK academic institutions it has the .ac.uk 'domain'. See

http://www.open.ac.uk/

Thanks
Robert

Alfredo Covaleda wrote:

Gary,

Maybe you are right, but look that Open University, for example, haven't got edu domain. We'll look forward to know how University Of People evolves and growth. Maybe it becomes in something interesting. Enrollment for fall semester is open. Look at this program.

http://www.uopeople.org/ACADEMICS/Programs/ComputerScienceProgram/tabid/218/Default.aspx

Alfredo

2009/5/8 Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]>

At the risk of sounding like an ivory tower, anti-capitalist prig (I'm not in academia, and worked in industry for more than 20 years), I doubt I would support the motives of a "university" whose internet presence has a .com suffix. What were they thinking?

;; Gary

On May 8, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote:

Hola

Have you checked the recently opened University of the People http://www.uopeople.com/ . Recently means last week. Are you talking about a model like this.

Alfredo

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Alfredo Covaleda Vélez
Ingeniero Agrónomo
Celular 311 213 7829
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