by Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
About a mile from the main quad at Stanford University, one of the nation’s bastions of exclusive and expensive higher education, a street-level office building across the street from an Olive Garden houses the makings of an up-and-coming contender. In this version of education, learning will be free and available to anyone who wants it while operating like a whimsical playground: No one is late for class, failure is not an option, and a lesson looks something like Angry Birds, the physics-based puzzle game that has been downloaded more than 1 billion times. “You want learning to be as much fun as it is to play a video game,” says Sebastian Thrun, a Google vice president and Stanford research professor best known for his role in building Google’s driverless car.
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