Nolan Gould Quotes

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

Some students just don't like online class.

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

This is going to sound weird, but I never went to normal school; I went to online school.

If you live in an area where there is not a good school, the internet may be the best way to get access to a lot of education material. The same is true if there is not a good doctor - the internet may be the best way to get access to health.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.

It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!

The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.