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Online education leverages the power of the best teachers, allowing them to teach many more students.......\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 26px; orphans: 4; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 24px;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;Not every university can afford world-class lecturers in development economics, the history of Croatia, or pop art, but more universities will be able to offer such courses by supplementing their own lecturers with online offerings.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 26px; orphans: 4; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 26px; orphans: 4; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003EAlex Tabarrok\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 26px; orphans: 4; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;\"\u003ELast year,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ai-class.com\/\" style=\"color: #b85b5a; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;\"\u003EIntroduction to Artificial Intelligence\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E, an online course from Stanford taught by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun, attracted 160,000 potential students, of whom 23,000 completed it, a scale that dwarfs anything possible on a physical campus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.i-programmer.info\/news\/150-training-a-education\/3658-sebastian-thrun-resigns-from-stanford-to-launch-udacity.html\" style=\"color: #b85b5a; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;\"\u003EAs Thrun put it\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E, “Peter and I taught more students AI, than all AI professors in the world combined.” Seeing this, he quit and founded Udacity, an educational institution designed to offer MOOCs.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;\"\u003EClay Shirky\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 19px;\"\u003EI\u0026nbsp;believe\u0026nbsp;online teaching is the future because:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 19px;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 19px;\"\u003E1.Cost\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 19px;\"\u003E2.You can repeat over an over\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 19px;\"\u003E3.Quality, you can leverage the best teachers\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 19px;\"\u003E4.You can still have\u0026nbsp;practical\u0026nbsp;classes, campus, homework, Sports but providing the best lectures available.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 19px;\"\u003E5.Thare are no sick days and bad lectures (the teacher is not feeling well)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: #333333; 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