[mdlug] universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free

[gib at juno.com]

This was an old (2012) video that says active participation is better than lecture format for teaching:

http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education

It would be interesting to see how this could be done with a local group.


Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed. 

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