The goal of the surveys was two-fold. The initial survey helped me to develop an understanding of the skills and capabilities that students hoped to learn from the course. Subsequent surveys enabled me to evaluate how well the course was meeting their learning goals and whether students reported any increase in their own level of domain expertise.

Mr. Thrun sent the 23,000 students who completed the Artificial Intelligence course a PDF file (suitable for framing) by e-mail showing their percentile score, but not the Stanford name; 248 students, none from Stanford, earned grades of 100 percent.

The course will include feedback on progress and a statement of accomplishment.

However, as time has passed, some research has begun to question the value of interaction, suggesting that there could be too much interaction required in a course

The more participants a learner had to pay attention to, the less satisfaction they had with the learning environment.”

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just my personal thoughts.

Thus, the peer review process could be on its way to the next step:  becoming truly crowdsourced using the Internet, and more specifically, a tool like Google, to effectively critique new work published by academic authors.

but the basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a third-party provider.

Crowdsourcing can improve productivity and creativity while minimizing labor and research expenses.

Three Types of Badges.

Community Badges.

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everyone else was present and eager to start.The students have got the hang of communication in world and our session ran smoothly,

Feedback from students continues to be mostly positive despite the technical hiccups.

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