Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/education/26university.html?_r=1&ref=education
Date: Jan 25, 2009
“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… “The idea is to take social networking and apply it to academia,” said the entrepreneur, Shai Reshef…“The open-source courseware is there, from universities that have put their courses online, available to the public, free… We know that online peer-to-peer teaching works….”
