Nor was it to be solely a research facility. (Stanford has one at Peking University, in Beijing.) Faculty members across the country would share videoconference screens, and students in New York would be able to take online classes based in Palo Alto.
The corporate university, which went live in April 2010, uses online classes and simulation exercises.
The Board of Trade's online classes draw in people from Chicago to Afghanistan.
Called CodeHS, the company, co-founded by two recent Stanford University graduates, aims to provide online programming classes in high schools.
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Duke Provost Peter Lange said his school won't award credit to its own students or to others who enroll in its Bioelectricity and Genetics classes online, two of the Coursera options that ACE has recommended for credit.
Despite skepticism about the school system's ability to shift, online classes now account for 1 million enrollments in public education, up from 45, 000 just seven years ago.
He is working through a computer systems program at local community college and says that his online classes at P2P University compare well to his in-person courses.
My biggest personal surprise in online learning came several years ago when I learned that one of the more popular classes that the Florida Virtual School offers is online physical education.
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In the Forum, Professors from MIT and Stanford spoke of their determination to put their classes online for all to engage with, while Bill Gates made it clear that this was something he was personally committed to supporting.
So NTIA BTOP program is supporting a number of projects specifically intended to benefit Latinos by funding computer centers in neighborhoods with large immigrant communities, by offering computer training and digital literacy classes in Spanish, and by helping Latino entrepreneurs and Latino-owned small businesses get established online.
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The online elements of the Cambridge Rutherford Schools Physics Project will be available in September while other parts, such as master classes for students, will follow.
Starting in 2013, the school expects to significantly expand its small graduate program, charge tuition for those students while creating online classes and adding more continuing-education courses.
Levine predicted that there would continue to be traditional campuses in the future where students live and attend classes, but that they would compete with virtual universities that only exist online.
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