January 17th, 2013

Study: Learning Spanish With Duolingo Can Be More Effective Than College Classes Or Rosetta Stone

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Education is quickly moving online, but we haven’t seen all that many studies that actually look into the effectiveness of these new forms of online learning. To see how its program performed, the language learning service Duolingo, founded by CAPTCHA inventor Luis von Ahn, commissioned a study (PDF)into the effectiveness of its program. The result, which even surprised von Ahn: it only takes a… → Read More