No, the maniacal, child-hating teacher of "Matilda" does not visit schools, but the RSC has developed an online instruction platform for teachers who bring student groups to the show.

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It is equally the case that a majority of nonprofit academic institutions are also delivering instruction online, including entire degrees.

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What Salman Khan and his Khan Academy did for elementary and secondary education, offering world-class instruction online for free, will soon be replicated throughout academia.

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The quality of instruction online is uneven, but much of it is superb, and the golf magazines, after considerable scrambling, have done well by their tip franchises.

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While it is true that many proprietary colleges and universities use online methods to deliver instruction, not all do.

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Our national search for solutions led us to the innovative Khan Academy, a self-paced, online program that allows for individualized math instruction.

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The quality of outcomes is less for an online student than for one who has received the same instruction in a classroom.

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Coursera, recently founded by Stanford professor Andrew Ng, will offer not only free online courses, but also a great deal of individualized instruction in the form of grading, testing, student-to-student help and certificates of completion.

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