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Professor Paul Romer on entrepreneurship and founding Aplia, an education software company

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Excerpt from Science Magazine -- "Romer had noticed that students in intro economics courses were blowing off homework assignments. And even when the students did do the problem sets, many faculty members couldn't provide much feedback because the classes were so large. Romer thought that technology could solve the problem. ... The software gives immediate feedback on wrong answers and allows students to participate in interactive group exercises that simulate market conditions—'it's like lab experiments in the natural sciences,' Romer explains."

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