Shai Reshef
Shai Reshef | |
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Born | 11 September 1955 |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Office | Founder and President, University of the People |
Shai Reshef (born September 11, 1955) is an educational entrepreneur. He is the Founder & President of University of the People.[1]
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1. Education and Career
From 1989 to 2005, Reshef served as Chief Executive Officer and then Chairman of the Kidum Group—a for-profit educational services company. Reshef joined Kidum in 1989 when it was a single product company with revenues of $100,000. Under his leadership, Kidum grew to become a company with annual revenues in excess of $25 million, with over 1,000 employees and 50,000 students a year. In 2005, he sold the company to Kaplan, Inc., one of the world’s largest education companies and a subsidiary of the Washington Post. [3] Between 2001 and 2004, while continuing as the chairman of Kidum, Reshef lived in the Netherlands where he chaired KIT eLearning, a subsidiary of Kidum. KIT is the eLearning partner of the University of Liverpool and the first online university outside of the United States. KIT provides MBA and M.Sc. degrees in IT. In 2004, the company was acquired by Laureate Online Education.[1][4][5] In January 2009, Reshef unveiled University of the People, a non-profit, tuition-free, online academic institution that aims to revolutionize higher education by making college-level studies accessible to students worldwide.[7][8] Reshef holds an M.A. from the University of Michigan in Chinese Politics.
2. President of University of the People
Reshef has spoken internationally at conferences including DLD: Digital, Life, Design in Munich, Hacking Education in New York[9], the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Amman, Jordan, UNDESA-GAID Global Forum in Monterrey, Mexico, and Fourth University Industry Council Symposium in Kolkata, India. He has also lectured several times at Yale Law School [10] as part of the ISP Speaker series [11] in [New Haven, CT] and presented a keynote speech at Google: Think Education.
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External links
- Mashable.com, What is the Future of Teaching?, August 31, 2009
- JakartaPost.com, Learning goes the distance, July 15, 2009
- Chief Learning Officer, Power to the People, June 2009
- FastCompany.com, 100 Most Creative People in Business, May 15, 2009
- Inside Higher Ed, Founder Explains U. of the People, March 5, 2009
- US News.com, University of the People, March 25, 2009
- News/Talk 760 WJR, Interested in a Free On-line University? Shai Reshef Explains More... January 27, 2009
- The New York Times, Israeli Entrepreneur Plans a Free Global University That Will Be Online Only, January 25, 2009