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What happens to the students who don’t have enough intrinsic motivation to stay glued to their laptop hour after hour?
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online learning will give millions of students access to the world’s best teachers
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accounting classes from Norman Nemrow of Brigham Young University
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Online learning could extend the influence of American universities around the world.
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Research into online learning suggests that it is roughly as effective as classroom learning.
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Online learning seems especially useful in language
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A brain is not a computer
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There is absorbing information
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Online education mostly helps students with Step 1.
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In an online world, colleges have to think hard about how they are going to take communication, which comes over the Web, and turn it into learning, which is a complex social and emotional process.
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My guess is it will be easier to be a terrible university on the wide-open Web, but it will also be possible for the most committed schools and students to be better than ever.
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subjects that are harder to digest in an online format, like philosophy
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The elite, pace-setting universities have embraced the Internet.
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