PanWorld Internet University

[Krill]

It wouldn't be a good education in biology or physics, but you can't train people do do chemistry or molecular biology without labs. If there are no labs, then why teach chemistry? Might as well just give them on the job training and not bother with the degree because a chemistry degree without labs is worthless. Barely a soft science then.

[Riesstiu IV]

The Innernette

[VetLegion]

I think snoopy369 hit the nail on the head:

The difficulty is getting people to the college level, and getting people to *want* to get to the college level (or, to be able to remove themselves from the workforce for a period of time, either entirely or partially).

For these schemes to work the target culture has to be receptive to learning and ready to spend a lot of time doing it. That means a very disciplined and long-term oriented population. Like Taiwanese and such. Most countries struggling with poverty are very short-term oriented.

[DaShi]

I think focusing the lessons on more immediate concerns for each populous would work better. Don't worry about the international market, first get them out of their holes. This would mean that each 'university' would have to be tailored for each country and specific region, but I think that's the only way it would really work.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by snoopy369


Look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1

That's probably what you're talking about. It turned out to be $200, and doesn't use a satellite (though you can of course set up a connection for a classroom and 802.11g it). Still, $200 is a rather large amount of money for a third world citizen...

It's also facing huge competition from intel and microsoft, who are afraid that these AMD, Linux machines will threaten them as international standards.