Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Saturday, November 08, 2008
Crowdsourcing university - Emily Kellogg, the Varsity (University of Toronto)
Even though Wikipedia will tell you anything you want to know, academics want to formalize online learning through the new Internet-only Peer 2 Peer University. The concept is simple enough—create an educational social networking site, in which members have access to teachers through Facebook-like profile pages. U of T’s Leslie Chan and Stian Haklev are among the team of nine students and professors spearheading the campaign for free, specialized, and interactive education on the net.

 



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