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In the annual letter from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation there is an emphasis on Innovation, Helping Teachers Improve and Online learning as well as many other subject not directly related to education. The following statement points to the fact that online learning or more specifically blended learning will be a significant focus for the Gates Foundation:

The foundation has made a few grants to drive online learning, but we are just at the start of this work. So far technology has hardly changed formal education at all. But a lot of people, including me, think this is the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things—especially in combination with face-to-face learning.

These section of the Gates Foundation letter also emphasizes open courseware, open content, interactivity and technology integration.

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