Most teachers have a nearly impossible task, as they are told to deliver a curriculum in the course of a year and somehow manage 20 to 30 children, who are all in different places and have different learning needs at different times.

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In order to enhance the effectiveness of the learning process, the course was designed with the intention of encouraging learners to identify with the characters on screen.

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The University of Arizona offers training in them for medical students and a two-year distance-learning course for doctors and nurses.

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What happens of course in the process is that a lot of the management roles disappear and you have a very agile organization that is learning very rapidly.

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To be sure, more than 6 million students in the U.S. are now taking at least one course online, and 65 percent of higher education institutions say online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy, according to a 2011 report from the Babson Survey Research Group .

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