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Stanford tutors taught a class, attended by 175 students in situ - and over 150,000 via an interactive webcast. Key learnings included: invite students to comment in online fora; don't leave the videos online, but run the class at a set time; emulate the one-on-one experience as far as possible.
World Bank data showed that, in developing countries, 30% of those under the age of 25 use the Internet, compared to 23% of those 25 years and older. However, 70% of the under 25-year-olds-a total of 1.9 billion-are not online yet: a huge potential if developing countries can connect schools and increase school enrollment rates.