Bill Gates On The Future of Online Courses in Higher Education

There are four key trends in online learning:

• The first is creating more engaging and interactive ways of learning than the traditional textbook. 
• Using the Internet to post and find great teacher lectures and effective course materials. 
• The use of social networks is also a growing influence, with the potential to increase collaboration among and between teachers and students and extend class discussions beyond the classroom. 
• We’re also seeing new kinds of personalizing learning—using gameplay and other tools –that give students and teachers important real-time feedback.

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