Online education opens up possibilities for engaging with a tremendously diverse student body, experimenting with fascinating laboratory tasks, and receiving immediate feedback on your performance. In some respects, such tools can be more effective than traditional schooling. Victor Shnayder and his colleague Teppo Jouttenus will discuss specific examples from edX learners to highlight their successes and explore some directions to improve the power of online education even further.

Teppo Jouttenus is an edX program manager and helps faculty create both massive open online courses as well as on-campus offerings using the edX platform. Victor Shnayder I is on leave from his PhD program in Computer Science at Harvard University, working at edX, where he does development and management while trying to improve education around the world.

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