#Giving net lessons to the world's poorest The last few years has witnessed a revolution in online learning,
It was an early example of a trend promising to transform online education the exploitation of huge amounts of data about how people actually learn.
alongside Jascha Sohl-Dickstein at nonprofit online education provider Khan academy, added messages above mathematics problems on the Khanacademy. org website to keep students motivated
The company offered to pay full tuition for the junior and senior years of online learning at Arizona State university.
#Online education Exploding at Campuses Across the country Like most other undergraduates, Anish Patel likes to sleep in. Even though his Principles of Microeconomics class at 9: 35 a m. is just a five-minute stroll from his dorm,
Online education is known best for serving older, nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family.
Across the country, online education is exploding: 4. 6 million students took a college-level online course during fall 2008, up 17 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sloan Survey of Online learning.
A large majority about three million were enrolled simultaneously in face-to-face courses, belying the popular notion that most online students live far from campuses,
AT&T and the online education provider Udacity have partnered to create thenanodegree, a new type of college degree similar to the#Micro Colleges that Futurist Thomas Frey predicted.
##Since last year, Udacity, other online education providers, and Internet billionaires have promised to overhaul the clunky path to a diploma.
Other online education providers, such as Coursera,#are designing their own certifications, which take about the same amount of time,
but not the cost incurred by the school did not employ the means Perry specified online learning and competency-based exams.
and the Texas Higher education Coordinating Board (THECB) just launched the ffordable Baccalaureate Program, the state first public university bachelor degree combining online learning and competency-based standards.
and content creation tool that enables interactive online learning across a dynamic multidimensional landscape. With his software Witty says users can set up
This could lead for example to more relevant online ads as well as enhanced gaming and online learning experiences.
But more immediately it could work for online learning. Already Affectiva has conducted pilot work for online learning where it captured data on facial engagement to predict learning outcomes.
For this the software indicates for instance if a student is bored frustrated or focused which is especially valuable for prerecorded lectures el Kaliouby says.
and other universities, to online learning platforms, including edx. These transcripts scroll along with video, highlighting text that's spoken,
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