{"id":7731,"date":"2010-08-04T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2010-08-04T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:17:16","slug":"u-people-partners-with-computer-exchange-to-support-worldwide-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/04\/u-people-partners-with-computer-exchange-to-support-worldwide-schooling\/","title":{"rendered":"U People partners with Computer Exchange to support worldwide schooling"},"content":{"rendered":"

U People partners with Computer Exchange to support worldwide schooling <\/strong><\/a>— from CampusTechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser<\/p>\n

An online university that offers tuition-free education is teaming up with an organization that works to make computer labs available to young people in developing countries. The University of the People<\/a> will work with the World Computer Exchange<\/a> with the goal of enabling qualified people without computers to become students within U People.<\/p>\n

The Computer Exchange is a grassroots network of volunteers in 71 countries that provides logistics for finding and deploying computers, materials, and services; training partners and maintaining networks; and building partnerships between universities in rich and poor countries. The organization estimated that, currently, its partners run 2,650 computer labs. As part of the new agreement, the Exchange will promote U People to prospective students using its services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U People partners with Computer Exchange to support worldwide schooling — from CampusTechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser An online university that offers tuition-free education is teaming up with an organization that works to make computer labs available to young people in developing countries. The University of the People will work with the World Computer Exchange with […]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,95,76],"tags":[737,96,16,77],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-global-globalization","category-open-courseware-and-systems","tag-education","tag-global","tag-global-learning","tag-ocw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7733,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}