Open University, also known as the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education, has gained mirror sites in the United States and accreditation by the U.S. Department of Education. This university is quite unique in that no students are found on campus, yet it houses over a thousand faculty researchers and teachers to impart long-distance education. The Baha'i faith is a religion founded in the mid 1800s by the Persian prophet Baha Allah. It proclaims the necessity and inevitability of the unification of mankind and world peace. Confusion lies in having to select from a stream of vendors who represent a myriad of educational designs.
Money is no object.
Even the poorest of America's schools are not without connections to cable, satellite or Internet lab access. Two weeks after the Littleton shootings, I visited one of Al Gore's 'broken window' communities in Pender, Nebraska. This depressed farming community sorely needed a new coat of paint. After risking a back door entrance to the enormous brick high school, I weaved my way, unimpeded, to the main office. Behind a locked door, adjacent to a library of sorts, we entered the 21st Century.