I think it is important to realize that most students take online courses in college for classes they don't like. Most my classmates take classes they find interesting in person and classes they just want to get done with because it is a required class online. This may explain why students do poorly in online classes, because in general they are classes they don't want to take in the first place and are therefore unmotivated to do well in the class. I have plenty of friends who failed their online English class but use Khan Academy to learn something for fun and do well in it. The difference is that the latter is a subject they care about.
I think it is important to realize that most students take online courses in college for classes they don't like. Most my classmates take classes they find interesting in person and classes they just want to get done with because it is a required class online. This may explain why students do poorly in online classes, because in general they are classes they don't want to take in the first place and are therefore unmotivated to do well in the class. I have plenty of friends who failed their online English class but use Khan Academy to learn something for fun and do well in it. The difference is that the latter is a subject they care about.
Amazon buying RadioShack could be a good move in terms of getting their hardware places where people can actually play and interact with them. Google announced they are going to have their own stores as well. Now the big tablet sellers, Apple, Google, Microsoft, (Nook?), all have stores for customers to see their tablets except for Amazon. This could end up being a big weakness for Amazon as it continues to dive deeper into the hardware market.