So far the new P2P University is no more than a quickly-put-together Web site and a dream, but its founders are trying to put some of their innovating ideas about open education to the test by creating a whole new model of online education.
A free article in today’s Chronicle describes the plans for the new university, set to start offering courses in February. One of its founders, Jan Philipp Schmidt, talked to Wired Campus TV via Webcam about the project as well.
Will traditional professors be willing to teach for this new online institution for free, as the founders hope they will to fulfill part of the service components of their jobs? Can such online courses help students even if the new university offers no credit on its own? —Jeffrey R. Young
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