Online Learning Update

September 19, 2011

The pros and cons of online learning

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

by Simon Bredin, the Varsity

After going viral over the summer, an artificial intelligence class offered by Stanford University has now enrolled over 130,000 students — a staggering number that exceeds the entire population of the St. George, Mississauga and Scarborough campuses combined. If taught on campus, the class would require 76 Convocation Halls filled to capacity, but instead, this enormous class is to be administered entirely over the Internet. The class is the latest, and most popular, development in mass online education.

http://thevarsity.ca/articles/47127

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