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Explore the innovative concept of "a 21st-century library" with web-based open courses for high school and college students. Discover how personalized feedback and multimedia features can enhance student performance. Learn how this vision aligns with the initiatives of the White House and Education Department, paving the way for a new era of open education.
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Mr. Smith, senior counselor to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, has bigger ambitions still. In January he published an article in the journal Science laying out the dream of "a 21st-century library" composed of Web-based open courses for high-school and college students. The courses would be laced with multimedia features and personalized with feedback from computer programs that track student performance. The language coming out of the article in The Chronicle indicates exactly thatand the White House and Education Department today echoes some of the concepts in Mr. Smith's article. (Page 2 of 5, Obama's Great Course Giveaway - Technology section– The Chronicle of Higher Education 2/2/2010http://chronicle.com/article/Obamas-Great-Course-Giveaway/47530/ )
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