Summary for Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It’s Free

In the introduction part, the author tells us that the online education is not a thing that totally new, online education was been used since 1990s. However, many world famous universities start use online education for recent years. Then he uses an example about a student from out of America, this student went to a online course at Stanford University in his home country, he took the test and passed the finial, and after that he received a certificate from Stanford University. This student is not the only example, there are many students like his enjoy the benefit that online course bring to them. There is an organization called Coursera work on online education thing. There are a lot online classes are offered by Coursera, and Coursera was founded by professors of Stanford University Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. They believe that the study should not just for a degree, and online education can helps students get knowledge and experience from top universities. University of Pennsylvania is one of top universities which work with Coursera. Online education makes it’s possible that students learn the knowledge from thousand miles away. Online education change the way teachers teach in classrooms. However, there are also many something need to work on in order to get better, like how to make sure no one cheating, and how to grade essay online.