by Virtual College (UK)
Online learning has the potential to significantly alter education in a positive way, a specialist has said. In an interview with SmartPlanet, Anant Agarwal, president of edX – Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s e-learning initiative – suggested that online training could transform academia’s efficiency, scale and quality. Students who have taken part in virtual learning environments have become engaged, been able to study at a pace that suits them and have experienced an education they believe is of a higher quality than that received in a traditional classroom, he added. Distance learning online enables a small number of staff to teach a large number of people, allowing schools and universities to support vast amounts of learners, he stated.
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