Peoples-Uni News
2010 semester now open for enrolment
The first semester in 2010 is now open for enrolment. New students please go to http://www.peoples-uni.org/forms/peoples-uni-course-application-form and returning students please go to http://www.peoples-uni.org/forms/application-form-returning-students
Membership of Global Health Workforce Alliance and Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance
The People's Open Access Education Initiative has recently become a member of the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the Zambia UK Health Workforce Alliance.
See a demonstration module
A demonstration course module has been created - Foundations of Public Health.
New paper on the Peoples-uni published online
Early experience with the Peoples-uni is described in a paper just published in Human Resources for Health at http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/7/1/43.
Applications for September 09 now closed
The next semester (09b) has started with 157 students and applications are now closed. The next semester will start in April 2010.
Interesting journal issue on Open Educational Resources
The availability of Open Educational Resources (OER) has underpinned the ability of the Peoples-uni to proved educational content. An issue of Open Learning: the journal of open and distance learning is devoted to this topic, and is freely available online.
Health Sciences Online launched
A new searchable resource has been launched to provide access to open educational resources. Go to http://hso.info
October 2008 semester completed
The first semester, the October 2008 intake, has finished. Most of the course modules were fully subscribed and student feedback was generally positive. Based on the results of the feedback and experience, a number of changes are to be made to future modules.
Peoples-uni now registered as a charity
The UK Charity Commission has regisered the Peoples-uni as: PEOPLES OPEN ACCESS EDUCATION INITIATIVE - REGISTERED NO: 1126265
Peoples-Uni applications for April Semester closed - expressions of interest for September 09 open
Peoples-uni course modules for the 09a semester (April 20th - July 13th) are now closed.
We have 128 students this time, on 10 modules - 4 of these are new (Public Health Concepts for Policy Makers, HIV/AIDS, Communicable Diseases and Health Economics).
For the 09b semester, starting in September 09, plese go to the 'expressions of interest' page on this web site.
The full list of courses offered is available at http://www.peoples-uni.org/book/courses-offered. We are planning to add further modules - please let us know which would be of special interest to you.