This chart is pretty interesting - if it has any validity at all (proper lables would help) it indicates a correlation between funding and student achievement. So is the concept of a 'computational freakonomics' course (alternative title: 'algorithms of pseudoscience'? Perhaps that's a bit harsh, but I still don't think universities should offer degrees in economics until it's shown to be something more than flim-flammery and voodoo, and the same goes double for 'freakonomics'. All of that said, I can't help but think that once "the Guardian's impressive open data journalism site" is integrated into online courses we'll see something new in the field of learning online.
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