Democratizing Higher Education

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Affordability Future of Higher Education Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Online Learning Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

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In this keynote session from The Sloan Consortium Conference, Sebastian Thrun discusses his venture into MOOCs. In 2011, Thrun took his Stanford graduate level class online, and 160,000 students signed up. 23,000 graduated at Stanford level. Underlying this class was a teaching model that emphasizes student engagement, problem solving, and free online access.

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