If the problem can be defined as lack of clarity about where collaboration ends and cheating begins, the solution lies with open, university-wide dialogue to define and stabilize the middle ground.
Martin Bean, the Open University's vice-chancellor, said that the arrival of online courses meant that UK universities could either "stick their heads in the sand" or rise to the international challenge.
Her co-founder and fellow Stanford professor Andrew Ng said the online courses would open up university to many more students and "credit-bearing college courses is a huge milestone toward that goal".
Then the university decided to open three upper-deck sections to Seton Hall students.
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The project has received funding from Queen's University, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council - the UK's strategic science investment agency - and the Open University.
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In 2014 it will open the first American-style research university campus in China.
The social scientist Dr Joe Smith, co-author of the Open University's climate change textbook, thinks the way climate science is conducted should be reappraised.
Enhancing the University's philosophy of open-ended exploration, students discover new opportunities for learning with mobile computing, sharing ideas and collaborating with peers and faculty while learning how to utilize technology effectively in their academic professional and personal lives.
The prototype uses an open-source speech-recognition program called Pocket Sphinx, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, but Dr Kristensson reckons it would be easy to apply the same approach to commercially available programs like Nuance's Dragon.
The doors of the University of California were thrown open, tuition-free, for the top 12.5 percent of high school graduates.
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Creation in 2007 of a Digital Repository of Journals published by the University of Costa Rica, with 45 open access full-text journals and plans to move to a OJS platform.
The Albanian language, already used in many primary schools and in a fee-paying university that is due to open officially this autumn, must become the medium of teaching in some secondary schools as well.
"Probably the middle-aged are the most vulnerable, " said Open University psychologist Graham Jones.
But while Renzi's following is growing, he was seen as too much of a modernizer for an Italian left long dominated by ex-communists, according to Geoff Andrews, an Open University senior lecturer and expert on Italian politics.
However, there is a tendency to think about open courseware as a rip-and-replace response to the traditional university experience.
There are ubuntu education funds, ubuntu tents at development conferences, ubuntu villages, an ubuntu university - and it's now the name of an open-source operating system.
The American Medical Association nixed a plan by Ross University, which operates on the island of Dominica, to open a for-profit M.
But Prof David Elliott, co-director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the Open University, said a single barrage was "pretty hopeless" in energy provision terms as it would only produce power in two bursts during a 24-hour period.
"The board has discussed the facts in detail and voted with a secret ballot by a score of 14-0 with one abstention to open a full investigation, " the university's dean, Bruno Bleckmann, was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.
The open-ended obligation to pay higher tax could deter some people from going to university.
Costa Rica has 72 open access full-text journals linked from Latindex, coordinated in Costa Rica by the University of Costa Rica.
When the Penn State University football team takes the field to open its 2012 season against Ohio University tomorrow, it will be relieved to just be facing 20-year-olds in pads than the opposition it has encountered in the past 10 months.
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Just this week, Yale University said it would open a liberal arts college in Singapore, at the expense of the island-state.
"Therapeutic cloning has tremendous, tremendous healing potential, but we have to open so many doors before human trials, " lead researcher Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University said in a telephone interview.
"China still needs America's market, needs to keep the U.S. dollar strong, and also needs the U.S. to open its market to Chinese export, " said Yan Xuetong, an America-watcher in Tsinghua University.
Michele Landis Dauber, a law professor at Stanford University who studies disaster-relief programs, said such a large undertaking could leave the group open to criticism depending on how it performs.
On April 2011, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is one of the latest universities to launch an open-access repository with Open Repository, based on DSpace technology.
However, the Open University said if the focus is on the OU in Scotland, rather than the OU as a UK-wide institution, it is the top Scottish performer with a 94% approval rating.
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The British announcement followed the publication of a report by Dame Janet Finch, a sociologist at the University of Manchester, which recommends encouraging a business model adopted by one of the pioneers of open-access publishing, the Public Library of Science.
Perhaps the University of Wisconsin ought to open up a public comment period to decide whether Pat Michaels, PhD needs re-assessing?
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