Coursera says it wants to develop technologies which can validate the identity of students who are learning at home and to use webcams to provide supervised exams.
Poor children tend to have lower test scores, perhaps because their parents are too busy trying to make enough money to survive and don't emphasize learning at home.
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The e-learning programme is founded on the basic and practical principle that the use of the internet as a learning tool not only creates anonymity and thus dismantles the psychological barriers that prevent illiterate adults from resuming their studies but also enables them to balance their work, family and learning commitments by learning at home at whatever time is suitable to them.
The OU, founded in 1969, is keen to promote the fact that more of its students are starting home learning courses during their teenage years or early 20s.
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Indonesia and Ghana had the least learning materials at home.
Under the proposals, parents will be required to take responsibility for their foreign-born children learning English at home, and being able to speak English will be made mandatory in a greater number of public sector jobs.
Instead of having just two kinds of schools, public or private, America will have a palette of choice, including voucher-redeeming public schools, voucher-redeeming private or parochial ones, quasi-public charter schools, quasi-private charter schools and home learning.
But the fact that huge numbers of kids are passing through school systems and not learning basic literacy drives home the fact that districts also need to take checking to see if the kids are learning anything more seriously.
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Presentations and discussions have covered topics ranging from home-learning lifestyles to ways of helping schools and holding them accountable.
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"These awards will help parents and students who don't have computers at home link learning at school with learning anywhere through technology, " said Secretary of Education Richard Riley.
It has also created equal life-long learning opportunities for all citizens in the Kingdom who are now able to continue with their education by enrolling in various adult learning centres that have been established across the country or through home-based self-learning.
Valerie Thompson of the E-Learning Foundation says children without home internet "lose out big time".
This interaction with books also establishes that reading and learning are valued in the home.
The programme alleged serious abuse was carried out at Winterbourne View Hospital - a private care home for people with learning disabilities.
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Valerie Thompson from the E-Learning Foundation, which aims to provide learning technologies to children both at home and at school, said that while will.i.am's donation was "fantastic", there remained "a very significant challenge".
"Reading materials which promote local knowledge and values as well as cultures and traditions should be developed to promote a multilingual literate environment at home, community, learning centres and work places, " he added.
You can participate in live online courses, listen to special guest lectures and study from their online learning center right from the comfort of your home or office.
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Overall, most children (89%) can get on to the internet via a computer at home but according to E-Learning Foundation this figure masks a divide between rich and poor.
She said French is a second language in her home and that her kids are learning to speak it, so being in this country at this time is good for her family.
Asking an urgent question on the subject on 7 June 2011, Ms Thornberry said "full and frank answers" were needed after undercover filming for BBC Panorama appeared to show evidence of serious abuse at the private care home near Bristol for people with learning disabilities.
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He has learning and behavioural problems and has frequently been sent home from school.
Craig Logan said RCA Records was "drawn to" and signed Thom after learning of the 21-night webcast from her home.
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"It will be a place to meet, learn and be entertained as well as a home for innovative research, design and learning, " he said.
In the past, such figures have been seized on by advocates of home education as evidence that many youngsters are learning with their parents.
Six out of 11 care workers were jailed after acts of abuse at the home, which looked after people with severe learning difficulties, were uncovered by BBC Panorama.
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As examples of innovation, she cites the "learning mentors" project, in which pupils are given indvidual mentors to help with problems which might be disrupting their learning, such as bullying, truancy or difficulties at home.
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