Online Learning Update

October 24, 2010

Bill Gates talks online learning tech

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

by Ina Fried, CNet News.com

Bill Gates has been taking online classes for years. Now, he thinks it’s time to make sure a whole lot more students do the same. Today, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing a new multiyear grant program that will give millions of dollars to those with novel ideas on how to use technology, and in particular online courses, to improve education. The Next Generation Learning Challenges are aimed at both funding new ideas and getting various groups to partner and expand on some of the good ideas that are being tried out, but only at small scale. But with all of the problems facing education, can technology really make that big of an impact? Gates seems to think so.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20019107-56.html

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