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May 13, 2013

Online Learning System Aims at Predicting Success or Failure

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By Don Clark, Wall Street Journal

Computer-based educational systems have long helped impart information to students and assess their understanding of it. The next step, one company in the field says, is using their behavior to make predictions. That’s the aim of technology being announced Tuesday by Desire2Learn, a Canadian company that specializes in cloud-based based learning systems it markets to colleges, schools and companies. Desire2Learn, launched in 1999, competes with companies like Blackboard and Instructure. It claims that 10 million learners at a range of institutions have made use of its technology, including some at big U.S. university systems.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/05/07/online-learning-system-aims-at-predicting-success-or-failure/

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