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Facebook is testing new features in its developer community that, if rolled out across the platform, could let anyone on the social networking service teach online courses.
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initiative, known as Developers Circles,
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The company is working with online education provider Udacity to create training programs for developers who participate in the circles.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently taken an interest in education. He and pediatrician Priscilla Chan, his wife, in 2015 founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which among many initiatives is exploring whether personalized learning can benefit students.
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I'm nervous about a deep integration of social media and learning. The mix of constant interruption (social media) with a need to focus (learning) seems counterproductive.”
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According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, students who are the least well prepared for traditional college also fare the worst in online courses. F
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Thus, while online courses may have the potential to differentiate course work to meet the needs of students with weaker incoming skills, current online courses, in fact, do an even worse job of meeting the needs of these students than do traditional in-person courses,”
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limited in scope
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based on data from DeVry University, a large, nonselective for-profit online college
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DeVry online classes attempt to replicate traditional in-person classes, except that student-student and student-professor interactions are virtual and asynchronous
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The study found that the negative associations with online courses are concentrated in lower-performing students
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