Yale's partnership with tuition-free University of the People will document the hurdles that web-based education must overcome
Primary Topic Channel: International , Tech Leadership
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Yale Law School researchers will team up with a tuition-free online university to study how online higher education is perceived worldwide and document what it takes for internet-based institutions to achieve accreditation.
The law school's Information Society Project (ISP) announced Sept. 22 that it would partner with University of the People, which launched its first courses earlier this month (see "Scholars try tuition-free colleges"), in a project that seeks to learn how the web-based program might boost its validity among powerful world leaders.
"Online learning is a relatively new thing for lawmakers, so all countries don't know how to deal with it yet," said Shai Reshef, founder and president of the University of the People, which has 179 students enrolled in its two fields so far: computer science and business administration. "We want to … determine the barriers that we need to overcome to operate." Accreditation for online schools, Reshef added, "is a big issue right now."