University of the People

http://www.uopeople.org/

Free (or small fee) online courses at university level in development by Shai Reshef, Israeli educational online pioneer. 

Things are moving fast in the digital educational world, or maybe I am just in act of discovery. Here in my outpost in Sweden the cutbacks at the physical universites mean that in some fields students are only in physical classes about 3-4 hours a week. Okay, tuition free here, but still.  There is certainly a good point to physically interact, meet and discuss, but soon we will wonder what we are paying those tuition bills for. Information is becoming free at a very fast pace.

First the music industry, now the publishing and newspaper industry. Soon the university industry?

Links to virtual learning

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/

http://www.virtualschools.net/folders/about_us/

http://www.inacol.org/

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

I am just beginning to hunt interesting alternatives for digital education, mobile education, virtual schooling. In other words, learning where you want, what you want and how you want it. It could be a complement to schools, but it could also be an alternative. Since 1969 (!) while in college I started being interested in alternative education. The time is certainly ripe now with over 2 million children being home schooled just in the USA and a spreading movement of taking education back from the formal schools.

I would be grateful for your links, help and ideas.