For example, for Stanford University a device could eventually show you a 3D map of the campus with real-time traffic information, information about your lecture room and the class there, information about the subject there, such as biology in 3D, and so on.

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Tao responded by posting class notes, lecture slides, open questions and comments.

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World class scholars, researchers, labs, lecture halls, and dormitories (the latter to attract the children of the most affluent) are not cheap, to put it mildly.

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In the former class he stays until the end of the lecture.

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So I was really impressed by a video I saw recently on YouTube, in which Professor Richard Quinn, of the College of Business Administration at the University of Central Florida, delivers an articulate and impassioned 14-minute lecture in which he reveals that many members of his class were found to have cheated on the midterm.

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Can a student of a 100, 000-person class easily and readily connect with a professor, tutor or classmate when a question arises during a lecture?

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