University of the People

                                                               President Shai Reshef. (Pic by James Duncan Davidson)

                                        

The University of People was formally announced in January 2009. The next day, the New York Times published an article about the university, followed by numerous other media outlets. From there, tens, then hundreds, then thousands of people joined the university as professors, advisors, volunteers, and of course as students. It was their effort that realized the university and gave me the privilege of leading this institution and a movement for accessible and affordable education."

Shai saw the potential of technology and the internet to revolutionize higher education to serve people wherever they are around the world. For Shai Reshef, "The timing was right: the tools needed to make online education universally accessible were already in place, including open source technology, open educational resources, and a growing social network culture where national boundaries were being erased, and people everywhere were connecting, teaching, and learning online from one another."

Bringing these tools together and applying his experience in education and business, Shai conceived and established UoPeople to provide quality higher education that would be accessible and affordable to all those who lack it.

It always strikes the point when it comes to Online learning that enables students greater flexibility and convenience when it comes to studying and completing coursework, and encourages innovative, original thinking. You can make use of your problem-solving skills and develop amazing solutions to real-life problems using complex algorithms, in industries ranging from IT, Internet of Things, Cloud, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, Blockchain, mobile, cybersecurity, games development, healthcare, and even data science.

UoPeople’s pedagogical model is based on an online collaborative learning environment that promotes peer-to-peer learning and utilizes open-source technology along with open educational resources (OER).

Peer Learning and assessment has something to do with the communication that takes place in your environment. It involves changing the way in which you communicate and operate in your everyday life. You may have to express your feelings more openly, assertively and instead of bottling all your feelings it is better to express them up. A long-term goal is something you want to accomplish in the future.  Sometimes it takes many steps to complete a long-term goal. Education, work experiences, self- study, training, complete MBA, manage programs and portfolios of projects lead the PMO. Buy a house, Travel the world, start a business, have good returns for long-time investments and so forth. Long-term goals are usually at least several years away. Long-term goals require careful time and planning. UoP provides students with instruction by some of the top university lecturers worldwide. Online learning enables students greater flexibility and convenience when it comes to studying and completing coursework, and encourages innovative, original thinking. This provides students with instruction by some of the top university lecturers worldwide. Online learning enables students greater flexibility and convenience when it comes to studying and completing coursework, and encourages innovative, original thinking.

Perhaps, the most important feature that UoP has come up with is a new and innovative UoP which has been instrumental for entering into a partnership with Unicheck –  which is a  cloud-based plagiarism detection tool, on a Zero-Tolerance for Plagiarism Policy  which is to assist the university’s efforts to strengthen, consolidate and innovative measure of UoP that upholds higher standards of academic honesty and rigor. With the introduction of this great tool it will enable Unicheck to enable cross-check each and every document submitted by UoP through the unique plagiarism detection software and scan and will detect all papers to automatically look for any copied work. This is a surprise move by UoP and is a very appreciated one, especially when there are hundreds and thousands of colleges all over the world who have still not any plagiarism detection software in place. Since UoP always stands for transparency, higher quality, and mission this innovative tool has been functional as of today, the first day of Term 2 for UoPeople.

UoP partners with New York University (NYU), University of California (UC) Berkeley and The University of Edinburgh to accept students. UoPeople also partners with educational foundations including the International Baccalaureate (IB) for the Master of Education. The university is supported by The Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Fondation Hoffmann, and companies such as HP, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Western Union, Estee Lauder and many more. Learn more at www.uopeople.edu. 

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In closing, “The higher education system failed…exactly as it is failing millions of potential students, millions that graduate high school, millions that are qualified for higher education, millions that want to study yet cannot access it for various reasons. First: Financial. Universities are expensive, we all know it. In large parts of the world, higher education is unattainable for an average citizen.” -Shai Reshef, TED 2014.