An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college- or career-prep course online to earn a high school diploma.
The Phoenix company will announce Tuesday the creation of Innovator's Accelerator, a six-week, online course taught by Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen, Hal Gregersen of Insead and Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management.
Online learning is sweeping across America, as more than 3 million K-12 students took an online course in 2009.
The leak is a Powerpoint slideshow that apparently contains screenshots from an online course for sales people -- so there's been at least one twist in its journey before it reached us, and that's reason in itself to be a bit cautious.
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Of course always-online is DRM.
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That audience is attractive to e-learning companies -- from correspondence programs that have hopped online to Net-only operations peddling curricula by the month or by the course.
And of course, co-op and online multiplayer action is available if you want to include a friend or try your luck against an opponent.
Aside from the fact that many of us in the startup community share a general fascination for businesses shifting paradigms, there is a very real reason why an entrepreneur, particularly a first-timer, should care about this online course catalog.
When the Stanford computer science professor offered a graduate-level course on artificial intelligence for free online last year, 160, 000 people from 190 different countries signed up.
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Of course, with next-gen sounding online connectivity, Bungie's silence on next-gen consoles is little more than a temporary vow -- Destiny seems a lock for (at very least) Sony and Microsoft's next consoles, if not also the PC (Wii U's looking unlikely).
Universities are beginning to feel threatened by the privatization of higher education by fast-moving technology companies that are putting course material online and offering it at worldwide electronic campuses, Levine said.
About 13, 000 students from around the world will start taking an online statistics course at Wesleyan University in Connecticut next week using SAS On-Demand and the R language.
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This was, of course, when brick-and-mortar shops still outsold their online brethren.
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Of course they engage in e-commerce: they sell instructional videos online.
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Women, of course, make up 49% of all e-commerce consumers but make more online purchases at 61%.
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Of course, those never materialized -- but they have in fact finally shown up online, albeit at the USPTO.
Of course, many gamers will remember something identical happening with Diablo 3 last year, another online-only title.
Of course, the question of ownership over your digital purchases is further complicated by the always-online nature of games like SimCity.
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To take a notable example, people from the biggest of the massive open online course platforms, Coursera, often talk about how exciting it is that they can do A-B testing to learn what works.
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But the idea of students cobbling together an entire degree from free Web courses, a prospect touted by some online-education evangelists, remains "kind of a silly nightmare, " said Edward Rock, director of open course initiatives at University of Pennsylvania.
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