In fact, many years of funding by the Public Health Agency of Canada. http://www.brandonsun.com/busi...

I think, it's an hoax. Isn't it?

Greetings Dr Agarwal,

The invisible part of MOOCs is the massive collection of data on the behavior of students. Here, we're talking about Learning Analytics and Big Data which should be used to improve the next generation of MOOCs. This is a common practice of Web 2.0, the improvement process à la Google that exploits the data of its millions of users to improve its search engine. Here, students' data are a goldmine.

It is not easy for a teacher to find the sources of confusion and less effective pedagogical approaches from the small samples of data collected with a class of 20 students each year. Moreover, those students are pretty similar (the sample is statistically pretty homogenous). At the contrary, a MOOC with its thousands of students from all around the world and with very different backgrounds can use effective statistical data mining methods to detect problems and improve teaching. MOOC can also use machine learning to discover situations (or patterns) where students have common problems, in order to present evidence or explanations to help them.

More, compared to human, a computer never gets angry and it is always ready to resume its explanations, making it an ideal teaching tutor.

Do you see the potential for continuous improvement of MOOCs mainly due to Big Data, the secret ingredient of MOOCs in the long term?

Claude Coulombe
Montréal

It's as if a bunch of people were brought up to believe human beings aren't adaptable to some moderate temperature hikes. We are, only stupid ones aren't.

It sounds like the Exxon CEO: . Fossil fuels will warm planet, but humans can adapt Therefore, no problem for people rich, young and in good shape. Just too bad for the others and wild animals! I've found indecent and immoral to read these disconnected comments.

Few months ago, a couple of key GWT developers have left Google to create a startup. But Google keeps the project alive and well and they will deliver a brand new version 2.5 version of GWT to Google I/O 2012. Futhermore, GWT wrappers for the Google+ API have just been released (http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/).

From my experiences, there is two extremes use cases with a gray zone between. For great and complex client-side project (desktop like web app), you should take GWT and MVP (Model-View-Presenter) framework like GWTP (http://code.google.com/p/gwt-platform) with eventbus, activities and places. You've got Eclipse tooling, visual editor, debugger and jUnit testing. As bonus, get a generated JavaScript code that runs faster than handwritten JavaScript. This is the software engineering playground. That said, to write HelloWorld and small cute web apps using jQuery or any JavaScript librairies could do the job quicker and keep the craftman happy.

The troll did not understand or he pretended not to understand. The iPad is a consumer device not a computer.

Rather than trying to compete on general research against Google, Bing's strategy is to select the targeted queries as the search for goods and services (travel, shopping, health, local searches., etc). The idea is bright, especially since such queries are the most likely to bring the $ dollars from advertisers. However, the trick is good but I see nothing that Google cannot ultimately counter ...