Em sintonia com a Wikiversidade.
Não fucei direito, mas parece uma boa iniciativa - ter o sobrenome do
digníssimo Albert é legal.
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Date: 2011/5/8
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iwojcik via communities: Einstein University - the free university.
Looking for volunteers / administrators to get new project off the
ground. If you would like to participate e-mail me at
isaacwojcik(a)einstein-university.org or sign up on the website at
www.einstein-university.org.
Einstein University is a free online university/ academic social
network where students and professors from around the world can share
ideas, read each others papers, and collaborate on research. You can
upload your photo, curriculum vitae, and up to four research papers.
Instead of charging students tuition, the university funds itself
through online ad revenue and donations. Our focus is entirely on
higher education and our goal is to become a fully accredited degree
granting university.
Einstein University uses the same software as Wikipedia, which means
anyone can help write or edit the open college textbooks and other
course material. It is similar to a For-Profit Online University, but
instead of a company creating the content, all of our content is
created collaboratively. Also, instead of paid professors facilitating
the courses, all of our faculty members are volunteer.
The E=mc² Initiative is our plan for accreditation. We hope to one day
offer Bachelor, Masters, and even Doctoral degrees online for free,
but we are going to start off simple. Our plan is to offer a 2-year
Associate Arts degree in 25 different languages and apply for
accreditation in the main countries that speak those languages. If
successful, this would make higher education free for over 3 billion
people.
The College Textbook Genome Project is an initiative to put all of the
world's knowledge in one place. The project's aim is to create
hundreds of free online open college textbooks, which anyone can
access and read at anytime for free. We hope to get authors whose
textbooks are no longer in print to donate the digital rights so we
can update them and turn them into open textbooks. We use Semantic
Mediawiki which means both humans and machines will be able to read
them.
If you would like to participate, sign up for a free account. The
first step is to create the open college textbooks and other course
material. There is no set schedule or semesters and volunteers
professors are not assigned to particular courses or students. All
they have to do to maintain volunteer faculty status is to earn a
certain amount of points each quarter. They can earn these points by
editing an open textbook, answering a student's question, uploading a
seminar or lecture, or submitting a test question. When and how a
volunteer professor decides to earn his or her points is totally up to
them.
Einstein University – An Introduction - Video
http://vimeo.com/22913827
Einstein University – Learn how to edit - Video
http://vimeo.com/22972243
www.einstein-university.org
Facebook/ Einstein University
Twitter/ EinsteinU
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