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It doesn’t matter which college you go to or what field your career is in; e-learning platforms can augment your skill set. Five experts on why massive online open courses are the way forward

It doesn't matter which college you go to or what field your career is in; e-learning platforms can augment your skill set. Five experts on why massive online open courses are the way forward:

There is a notable demand for educational programmes from learners around the world who are not being served by existing systems. In the traditional academic model, students are pushed ahead at a fixed pace. So, in a middle-school pre-algebra class, the teacher might go over exponents. After some homework and perhaps another lecture, there would be a test. Some would score 70 per cent, others might get 80-90 per

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