A conversation on TED.com: ESTABLISHMENT OF A GLOBAL FREE DIGITAL UNIVERSITY VIA AN INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM

KYRIAKOS KOUVELIOTIS
Athens
Greece

President & CEO, Atheneum Liberal Studies

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ESTABLISHMENT OF A GLOBAL FREE DIGITAL UNIVERSITY VIA AN INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM

The global developments and the contemporary international setting dictate more thanever the reorientation of the existing educational structures and the creation of new ones,in order to face the new challenges that countries and students are facing.The formulation and development of a new educational structure and mode, such as theproposed Consortium, comes to fill this gap. This new educational organisation based onthe latest developments that technology currently offers will create solutions for makingdistance learning and e-learning more popular and applicable.In this framework, we are proposing to establish with your Institution an
InternationalConsortium on Digital and Telematic Distance Education
that will alsoaccommodate life - long learning and continuous education. It can start by the gradualoffering of specific postgraduate programs and it will operate at a parallel level with thetraditional teaching method of the University. It aims to supplement and not to substitutethe existing educational structures.The methodology of Consortium's educational services is based on the latest telematicapplications on distant education and e-learning whereas, it constitutes a combination ofinternet and television use.The methodology uses also all the current innovative technological educational tools suchas virtual learning via
Second Life:
http://secondlife.com

COMPLETE PROPOSAL AT:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/59244036/PROPOSAL-FOR-THE-DEVELOPMENT-OF-A-DIGITAL-UNIVERSITY-IN-SOUTHEASTERN-MEDITERRANEAN

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Derrick McNeill
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Oct 17 2011: Well isn't MiT already doing that with it's "open source" program on Itunes the only thing left is to "pay" for the classes.
James Turner 10+
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Oct 15 2011: Sounds like a great idea and you wold need every government and educational body in every country to buy into it and give the degree the same level of credibility that it does those earned from the local universities and colleges. Not impossible but a very hard job. I have heard comments about people who got on line degrees and credentials and the general attitude is that the degree is not as valued. You would need a world wide governing body over education that designs curriculum and graduation requirements. I can see that being fraught with fraud, cronyism, protectionism and a million other flaws. A good thought just really hard to implement in a way that would be fair to all people and relevant to all nations.