{"id":44738,"date":"2014-02-14T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44738"},"modified":"2014-02-14T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:24:03","slug":"free-online-university-receives-accreditation-in-time-for-graduating-class-of-7-lewin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/02\/14\/free-online-university-receives-accreditation-in-time-for-graduating-class-of-7-lewin\/","title":{"rendered":"Free online university receives accreditation, in time for graduating class of 7 [Lewin]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free online university receives accreditation, in time for graduating class of 7<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 — from nytimes.com by Tamar Lewin<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Just in time for its first graduates, the University of the People, a tuition-free four-year-old online institution built to reach underserved students around the world, announced Thursday that it had received accreditation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is every exciting, especially for the students who will graduate in April, with a degree from an accredited institution,\u201d said Shai Reshef, the Israeli entrepreneur who invested millions of dollars to create the nonprofit university. \u201cThis has been the big question for anyone who thought about enrolling. We have 1.2 million supporters on Facebook, I think second only to Harvard, and every day, there is discussion about when we will be accredited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, with accreditation from the Distance Education and Training Council, a national accrediting group, Mr. Reshef said, the university will expand significantly. He expects to have 5,000 students by 2016.<\/p>\n

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\"MassiveOpenOnlineForcesEconomist-Feb2014\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpts (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Two big forces underpin a university\u2019s costs. The first is the need for physical proximity. Adding students is expensive\u2014they require more buildings and instructors\u2014and so a university\u2019s marginal cost of production is high. That means that even in a competitive market, where price converges towards marginal cost, modern education is dear.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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MOOCs work completely differently. Alex Tabarrok, an economist at George Mason University and co-founder of an online-education site, Marginal Revolution University, reckons the most salient feature of the online course is its rock-bottom marginal cost: teaching additional students is virtually free.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Free online university receives accreditation, in time for graduating class of 7\u00a0 — from nytimes.com by Tamar Lewin Excerpt: Just in time for its first graduates, the University of the People, a tuition-free four-year-old online institution built to reach underserved students around the world, announced Thursday that it had received accreditation. \u201cThis is every exciting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,86,209,57,159,72,286,143,306,343,533,95,3,7,510,62,436,310,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-disruption","category-economics","category-education","category-experimentation","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-online-learning","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44745,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44738\/revisions\/44745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}