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Article: MIT'S XO Laptop & the Online Classroom
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- The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 28, 2008
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Its seems education increasingly is becoming an online activity. Everyone is getting wired and connected, from preschool and primary schoolchildren to busy graduate students who attend seminars and submit aU their work online. Now, in addition, onhne learning has become a heartthrobbing quest in charity to save the world's poorest children from an impoverished education.
In November, Newsweek magazine and Waiden University, one of the major drivers of coUege ontine degrees, introduced to the press in Washington, D.C., a project that had hardened national high-tech reporters "oohing and ahhing" - a 20-ounce bright green and white XO laptop computer geared to young chüdren. It was being ...