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Maria Gurova

HBO NOW Pushing the Cord-Cutting Trend - App Annie Blog - 3 views

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  • In 2007, Netflix changed the landscape by introducing streaming on PC, allowing customers to instantly watch shows. By 2010, Netflix video streaming became available on additional platforms, including iOS devices. Today, video streaming services Netflix and Hulu have a strong hold among combined iOS and Android Top US Apps.
  • These convenient apps have set the stage for a preferred entertainment delivery. A whole generation of consumers have grown up with video streaming, rather than (or in addition to) paying for cable television: cord cutters and cord nevers. Major premium cable networks, HBO and Showtime, are now after a piece of the pie Netflix and Hulu have carved out
  • Both HBO NOW and Showtime are taking different approaches to standalone streaming partnerships. HBO NOW has gotten more traction in part to a heavy promotion from Apple, resulting in positive metrics. Showtime’s success is less clear, being married into Hulu’s already strong performance
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  • Netflix isn’t being left in the dust completely, kicking off their original film initiative with “Beasts of No Nation”, which will launch both in theaters and streaming video on October 16th. HBO, Showtime, Netflix and Hulu will still need to compete with each other to retain users in a new “entertainment as a service” landscape where retention is not a given, but an earned currency.
  • Cable provider Comcast hasn’t felt the heat from the cord-cutting trend, having its second best Q2 in nine years. Comcast is also in an advantageous place as a broadband provider, with 22.3 million total customers in Q2. Good quality video streaming relies on broadband internet, meaning cable providers that offer bundled internet service will still be valuable
  • Maria Gurova on 12 Aug 15
     
    the rise of streaming services and how cable networks are competing with video streaming services on their battle field 
Maria Gurova

Elon Musk Snags Top Google Researcher for New AI Non-Profit | WIRED - 0 views

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  • Tesla founder Elon Musk, big-name venture capitalist Peter Thiel, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and several other notable tech names have launched a new artificial intelligence startup called OpenAI,
  • OpenAI has the talent to compete with the industry’s top artificial intelligence outfits, including Google and Facebook—but the company has been setup as a non-profit.
  • The apparent aim is to build systems based on deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence that has proven extremely adept in recent years at identifying images, recognizing spoken words, translating from one language to another, and, to a certain extent, understanding the natural way that we humans talk.
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  • intend to open source their work, freely sharing it with the world at large. Recently, Google open sourced the core software engine, TensorFlow, that drives its deep learning services, and just this week, Facebook open sourced its deep learning hardware.
  • OpenAI says, its backers have committed $1 billion to the project.
Maria Gurova

Amazon Will Open Over 300 Physical Bookstores Because Life Is a Practical Joke Played O... - 1 views

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  • Amazon is working on plans to open hundreds of brick-and-mortar bookstores
  • Amazon already has one physical store that opened back in November.
  • Physical bookstores quickly turned into showroom floors where people would browse and then go buy books for cheap at Amazon.
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  • We can’t wait to see Netflix open up laserdisc rental shops next
  • Maria Gurova on 03 Feb 16
     
    so far this is only speculations and rumors. but let's see how the story evolves 
Maria Gurova

A DIY Platform For Building Devices You Control With Your Mind | Co.Design | business +... - 0 views

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Technology science brain-computer interface kickstarter open source

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  • OpenBCI, a Kickstarter project by Conor Russomanno and Joel Murphy, aims to fill this need by offering makers, hobbyists, and other geeky tinkerers a fully open-source prototyping platform for designing whatever mind-control UIs they can dream up
  • 100 Famous Movie Quotes, Visualized
  • The only thing that will lead to the tipping point of BCI practicality is simultaneous and rapid hardware and software iteration; Joel and I both believe that this type of rapid technological innovation cannot take place behind closed doors, hence our unfaltering mission to keep OpenBCI totally open source and include as many people of varying disciplines as possible
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  • OpenBCI is designing the Lego blocks; someone else will build the castle.
  • Making EEG-controlled novelties is one thing, but designing better medical devices to enable paralyzed people to move their wheelchairs, or locked-in patients to communicate, is a truly noble enterprise
  • Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14
     
    watch the video in the article, it's really comprehensive in understanding the idea
anna_nelidova

The World's First Fully Robotic Farm Opens In 2017 | Popular Science - 0 views

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Technology Robots Economic future farmers Human Machine Interaction automated growing future of food Environment sustainability Energy Efficiency Humanisation of Robots Future of Talent Free Time Leisure

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  • A company in Japan is building an indoor lettuce farm that will be completely tended by robots and computers.
  • The company, named Spread, expects the factory to open in 2017, and the fully automated farming process could make the lettuce cheaper and better for the environment.
  • The plants can be grown hydroponically without exhausting soil resources.
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  • Up to 98 percent of Spread’s water will be recycled, and the factory won’t have to spray pesticides
  • Artificial lighting means the food supply won’t rely on weather variables, and the lighting can be supplied through renewable energy.
  • anna_nelidova on 09 Nov 15
     
    A Japanese company plans to open a fully automated farm by 2017 that will be very efficient and not harmful for the environment. They are hoping to increase production and to reduce labor costs and company's prices. 
Irina Marchenko

Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age - 0 views

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  • Women are advancing in entrepreneurship as well. An American Express OPEN State of Women-Owned Businesses report found that between 1997 and 2011, the number of businesses in the U.S. increased by 34%, but the number of women-owned firms increased by 50%. That compares to a growth rate of just 25% for male-owned firms and has allowed businesses owned by females to reach 49% of U.S. firms — near parity with their male counterparts.
  • The Digital Age and Childcare Entrepreneurship in the digital age lends itself to childcare, a consideration that affects any discussion of women in the workforce. Young, single, urban woman are outearning their male counterparts; however, this trend reverses as workers age and start families. And even though many companies are replacing “maternity leave” with more gender-neutral “flex time,” it’s clear that working women will always be seeking that balance of career and family.
  • The digital age offers a wealth of low-risk opportunities. Ventures like blogging, web-based services, ecommerce and software development require smaller upstart costs than manufacturing-based, brick and mortar type businesses. Cloud-based tools and virtual workforces further lower the cost of entry, making the idea of starting a business more feasible and/or palatable for risk-averse entrepreneurs.
Maria Gurova

'Snowpiercer's' VOD gamble is paying off | EW.com - 0 views

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  • distributors are usually loathe to discuss VOD specifics publicly. When consumers are used to seeing $60 to $100 million opening weekends for major blockbusters in wide release, VOD numbers, no matter how “good,” look miniscule in comparison. Add on the fact that Snowpiercer is the widest multi-platform release ever, and the tricky exercise of figuring out how to combine theatrical earnings with weekend estimates from digital and cable providers, and the territory gets even more unfamiliar.
  • Snowpiercer earning an estimated $1.1 million from VOD this past weekend, nearly twice as much as the $635,000 it earned in theaters. “From a layman’s perspective these numbers are possibly not that interesting,” admits RADiUS-TWC co-president Tom Quinn. “But from an industry perspective, it’s a game changer.”
  • VOD is both cheaper and more profitable. “That $1.1 million gross is actually worth almost double to me in terms of how it nets out in our bottom line,”
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  • VOD—with access to 85 million homes—doesn’t have the same drastic theatrical drop-offs from week to week.
  • Still, a two-week theatrical exclusive is an extremely short window, especially since Snowpiercer opened in only eight theaters and is currently showing at a mere 356 locations
  • “This is completely uncharted territory but it’s 100 percent within the consumer’s control how you want to see this film,”
Maria Gurova

The Movie Theater Of The Future Is All About Big Screens And Big Data - 2 views

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Theatrical Technology Economy infrastructure devices screen In-Theatre Experience big data Barco Escape IMAX premium format

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  • With huge-flat screen TVs becoming more affordable — and more original TV content being produced — cinemas have to step up their game to keep pace in the arms race with home theaters. That’s why theater chains are coming out with better food, reclining chairs, and more supersized screens like Imax to take full advantage of the special effects in many tentpole blockbusters.
  • The theater, which opens to the public Friday night, now has a lobby that’s part of the show (and soon, a camera-based audience data gathering tool to go with it), and a cinema equipped with the showpiece Barco Escape, which combines three screens in a U-shaped pattern that gives the viewer almost a cockpit-type perspective of the action.
  • “The Maze Runner” and its sequel, “Maze Runner: Scorch Trials,” were the first — and only — two films with scenes optimized for Barco Escape, but with dozens of Imax films coming out every year, there needs to be a much broader pipeline of content to compete with other large format
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  • there are currently 21 Barco Escape theaters in the world — 16 in the United States, two each in Europe and China, and one in Mexico.
  • The Barco Escape costs exhibitors $100,000 with an additional fee per movie.
  • Hoddick said he wants to develop three additional films this year, then eight in 2017 and then 12 a year after that
  • the plan is to have more than 100 by the end of this year, and 1,000 within three to five years. Oh, and they want an additional 1,000 just in China, soon to be the world’s biggest movie market — and one where Imax is in the process of opening hundreds of its own screens
  • Hoddick said while Barco Escape is only for 2D films at this point, he imagines it’s only a matter of time before 3D comes to the platform
  • it’s currently about 4 percent more expensive to produce a movie for Barco Escape, because the work has to happen in post-production, Hoddick said new cameras from manufacturers including Sony that can film in the 7:1 aspect ratio necessary for the medium will slash costs significantly
  • the theater will soon install a camera-based surveillance system to analyze demographics and customize which “lobby dominations” go live — think superhero trailers going up when a crew of high school kids walks in
alexbelov

Facebook's Messenger Bot Store could be the most important launch since the App Store |... - 0 views

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  • Today, Facebook Messenger has 800 million monthly active users – more than 100 times the number of iPhone owners when Apple launched the App Store. Messenger’s current active user base exceeds even the total number of iPhones ever sold. Messaging apps now have more active users than social networks.
  • If and when Facebook announces a Bot Store, it will mark the “end of the beginning” of a new era: messaging as a platform. Conversational user interfaces are about to change the way billions of users interact with the world around them.
  • Pavel Durov announced the expansion of the Telegram Bot Store and Ted Livingston staked out Kik’s claim to be the WeChat of the West. By the end of the year, Slack had announced the Slack App Directory, supported by an $80 million fund to fuel the growth of the ecosystem, and Google was rumored to be developing its own chatbots.
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  • 2016 would be “the year of conversational commerce”, but the Messenger bot platform will inevitably extend far beyond commerce.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Facebook is developing chatbot platform for its messenger. It will open new opportunities for online businesses, including conversational commerce. Message bots will become new apps and challenge existing industries.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Europe's Cities Resilient to Climate Change | Ecology Global Network - 0 views

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  • Many cities are now facing impacts such as water scarcity, flooding and heatwaves, which are expected to become more frequent and intense than they are used to. Cities need to start investing in adaptation measures using ideas and best practice from around the world.
  • Climate change adaptation should be flexible to accommodate uncertainty
  • Adaptation should work with nature, not against it.
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  • Many adaptation measures can make cities more pleasant places to live. Malmö in Sweden manages rainwater flows with a new open storm-water-system. Here, green roofs and open water channels lead rainwater into collection points that form a temporary reservoir.
  • People also need to change behaviour in order to adapt.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Out in the Open: The Tiny Box That Lets You Take Your Data Back From Google | Enterpris... - 0 views

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  • Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 16 May 14
     
    The National Security Agency is scanning your email. Google and Facebook are hoarding your personal data. And online advertisers are selling your shopping habits to the highest bidder. Today, more than ever, people are thinking about how to opt out of this madness without quitting the internet entirely.
Olga Bykova

POPUP BIRMINGHAM TO OPEN AT BULLRING TO SUPPORT RETAIL ENTREPRENEURS » PopUp Britain - 0 views

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  • Olga Bykova on 06 Aug 14
     
    PopUp Birmingham offer support to future high street entrepreneurs by giving them an opportunity to co-fund and co-work in a prime retail space, keeping costs low while stirring up entrepreneurial spirit in the city.
al_semenchenko

Jeff Bezos' Space Program Successfully Lands A Rocket | TechCrunch - 1 views

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  • al_semenchenko on 30 Nov 15
     
    Road to Space tourism is now open. In a few years such flights will be common practice for people looking for a thrill. One more step in conquering Earth's orbit.
Vladimir Antonov

Build-it-yourself spider robot aims to help kids learn robotics - 0 views

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Technology science robot learning robotics crowdfunding open source learning Generation Z Indiegogo new skill set Future of talent

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  • Assembling is half the fun
  • by building the robot you'll learn the basics of 3D modeling, electronics, mobile app coding and Arduino programming
  • platform is fully Open Access, meaning everyone will be able to freely modify all of its aspects
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  • founders promised to make the source code, as well as all the blueprints and 3D models free and accessible to everyone.
  • Vladimir Antonov on 26 Oct 15
     
    STEMI - a play on the acronym STEM, meaning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - is an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for a hexapod robot that moves like to a spider. Unlike many other commercial robots, however, this one comes in a kit, together with a set of multimedia lessons that helps you assemble it into a working robot.
isoldatenkova

Lisa Jackson on iPhone robot Daisy and Apple's new lab in Austin, Texas - Business Insider - 0 views

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  • Apple announced the opening of a new materials recovery lab in Texas and upgrades to its Daisy robot, another effort in its goal toward eliminating the need to mine new materials from the earth.
  • Discarding used gadgets like smartphones, laptops, TVs, and other appliances could pose environmental and health risks and wastes valuable resources needed to produce electronics
  • The new 9,000-square-foot research and development lab opening in Austin will use robots like Daisy as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence to break new ground when it comes to recycling electronics
Maria Gurova

Imax's Richard Gelfond on Virtual Reality, Woody Allen and Reservations Over Netflix - ... - 0 views

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  • Given Imax receipts typically account for about 10 percent of the average tentpole's box office, studios and top filmmakers frequently shift their release dates to land a big-screen berth
  • Looking forward, the company is making a big push into virtual reality, partnering with Google on a camera, and will launch its first VR space in Los Angeles this year. On the content front, Michael Bay is in talks to create original VR content for Imax
  • Any regrets about partnering with Netflix to release the low-grossing Crouching Tiger 2? I have no regrets about experimenting because, especially with the windows changing distribution patterns, with digital distribution and over‑the‑top alternatives evolving quickly, the industry is going to have to experiment and learn.
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  • If someone came to us and said, "Would you launch a TV series in Imax day-and-date?", that's definitely something we would consider
  • We have over 300 theaters open; we have over 200 theaters in backlog [where a theater has been approved and the space designated, but it hasn't been built yet]. We just announced a 10‑theater deal.
  • Wanda, which accounts for the largest number of Imax screens in China, has its own giant-screen technology. Worried? I'm not very worried.
  • If the public wants an experience that's better than a standard 35mm but not as good as an Imax, there's a category they fit in.
  • In 2015, you announced the creation of the Imax China Film Fund to invest in Chinese tentpoles.
  • We can leverage those relationships, plus the Imax technology, plus the Imax release windows, and create value by investing in the right films.
  • We could get into original programming, but we're not going to be a small participant in a $200 million movie. Could I see there being a $10 million or $20 million film that is with an Imax filmmaker who loves Imax and plays well to the Imax audience and has the right ancillary distribution afterward? Yes. That's something we're exploring.
Maria Gurova

Future of Film: Even Bigger Screens and, Yep, Cinema Selfies - Hollywood Reporter - 0 views

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  • a new generation of even more ambitious theaters — possibly even including cinema's first holodeck — is waiting in the wings.
  • The first Escape theaters — which will include the Cinemark 18 & XD at the Promenade at the Howard Hughes Center in Los Angeles — will open Sept. 19, showing a special edition of Fox's new young adult thriller The Maze Runner
  • Escape theaters showing The Maze Runner will project the live-action movie on to the center screen, and the side screens will feature additional visual effects
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  • "We believe entertainment needs to continue to evolve with a more immersive experience,"
  • Movie screens will continue to morph into ever-wider configurations
  • That footage will be shown in a special 360-degree OmniCam theater installation planned for the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich. Meanwhile, startup Jaunt is developing a 360-degree camera for use in virtual reality
  • High-tech interactivity also may play a role in the next generation of theaters.
  • They would include a theater where a 3D movie is projected onto a 360-degree dome-shaped screen and real-time facial replacement would be used to project audience members into the action
  • "You'd have a wristband that identifies who you are, and if you elect to, your body and face can be scanned, allowing the attractions to include you in them and allow you to interact with them
Maria Gurova

Is it curtains for the big screen? - FT.com - 1 views

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  • According to the National Association of Theatre Owners, US movie attendance peaked in 2002 and has been steadily declining ever since. To compensate, theatres have rolled out new technologies such as 3D, Imax and premium large-format cinemas, raising their ticket prices and thus keeping the box office at record-breaking levels
  • The majority of us are increasingly staying home.
  • At Cannes this year, the studio with the most films in competition
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  • was not one of the big studios, but the streaming service Amazon.
  • But blockbusters have a design flaw: their marketing costs are enormous — opening a movie typically costs anywhere from $20m — and they spend less and less time in cinemas. To take a recent example, ticket sales for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice dropped by an astonishing 68.4 per cent on its second weekend
  • “What you’re going to end up with is fewer theatres,” George Lucas said during a panel at the University of Southern California in 2013. “Bigger theatres, with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies is going to cost you 50 bucks, maybe 100.”
  • “Fifty per cent of Americans did not step into a movie theatre last year, and of the 50 per cent that did go into a theatre, 95 per cent of them went to one or two films,”
  • He argued that a film will come out in cinemas for 17 days — three weekends — which is where 98 per cent of films make 95 per cent of their revenues anyway. On the 18th day, the film will be available everywhere and you will pay for the size: a movie screen will be $15, a 75-inch TV will be $4, a smartphone will be $1.99.
  • Arguably, it’s more visual than television. It has our full attention: each frame must pull its weight in terms of narrative and spectacle. That is why it is a director’s medium: it envelops us. TV comes to us, into our homes, casual, familiar, favouring habit-forming episodic narratives. That is why it is a writer’s medium. The big screen glamorises — its stars are the stuff of myth; the small screen is more like a member of the family
  • And something like The Avengers, it’s too much fun laughing with the audience. These things are communal experiences.
  • But then many film-makers would argue that movies should be consumed differently from music: a song is a song wherever you play it, whereas films were built for the big screen.
  • “I don’t think that experience is going to die,” says Obst, “although I do worry that eventually we will all be inside on our huge computer screens, watching all of the different types of entertainment together
  • Nothing breaks the spell of the movie more instantly than the pause button.
Maria Gurova

From Netflix to full immersion: how the future of cinema lies in our handhelds | Film |... - 2 views

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Theatrical Technology entertainment immersion Immersive Experience 360-degree video Storytelling VR in-home vs in-theatre In-Theatre Experience interactive screen fights fly-off-the-wall-film-making Netflix premium format IMAX

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  • Unlike films made for the silver screen, an internet film doesn’t need to contain something for everyone
  • But the internet is different. As viewers are watching alone, films can be made exclusively for certain fanbases and still be confident of finding an audience.
  • in the eyes of a conservative family, the company should stand for wholesome entertainment, but to a 20-year-old city-dwelling college graduate, it should be more edgy. It’s unlikely these two demographics would go to the cinema together, while they almost certainly won’t be streaming the same content.
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  • Cinemas probably aren’t going to die out any time soon, but they may well host different kinds of films than laptops and phones in the near future.
  • Netflix’s chief content officer is open about this, saying that watching a movie online is like seeing a sports game broadcast on TV rather than being at the stadium
  • A distinctive form of film is also emerging on phones: 360-degree movies were developed by Google
  • When you watch it, you realise that this software blurs the boundary between films and games: although, strictly speaking, you are not playing anything; you are participating in the experience.
  • The technology gets really interesting when it comes to documentaries. Director Chris Milk has used virtual reality to make films about a refugee camp in Jordan and a mass protest in New York.
  • Fundamentally, this is taking out the middle man in that process, and making you feel as if you were actually there.
  • Call it fly-off-the-wall film-making
  • traditionally it is the director’s job to tell the audience what to look at, in this approach directors don’t exist, only “creators”
alexbelov

'Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years' - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Founded in California four years ago, Coursera has become one of the world's biggest providers of "massive, open, online courses" - known as Moocs. The online platform has 20 million students following courses from about 145 prestigious universities and institutions around the world.But most of the online courses have been short units that give students a certificate, rather than a full degree or credits towards a degree.
  • Coursera has announced a partnership with the US State Department to help refugees to access online courses to improve their job chances, such as English language lessons or computer coding.It would remove any costs from studying, such as fees for certificates showing the completion of courses.
  • EdX is offering a range of online courses from Arizona State University - and if a student passes eight of these, costing $200 (£150) each, it counts as the equivalent of a first year at university.
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  • Coursera has launched two online postgraduate courses with the University of Illinois, at a much lower price than their conventional counterparts.
  • alexbelov on 08 Jul 16
     
    Leading universities will offer fully accredited undergraduate courses online within five years, says the founder of a leading US online university network.
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