Daphne koller: What we're learning form online educaiton

http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2012-08-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

Certificate programs from the best professors of America
15:00 --When 2% of 100 students get the same wrong answer it can be missed, when 2% of 100,000 students make the same mistake then we can target their errors.

16:40--Benjamin Bloom 1936 research on lecture based classroom vs. mastery based advancement vs. 1on1.  1on1 yielded 2 standard deviations above lecture based, mastery yielded 1 standard deviation greater. though we can't all receive 1on1 in america, Koller believes we can afford computers.

"College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either"  -Mark Twain

"The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs iglighting" -Plutarch