Last week, I noted that former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun enrolled 160,000 students in an online computer science class. That inspired him to set up a new company, Udacity, to pursue online education. A new article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek adds some additional color to the story. Barrett Sheridan and Brendan Greeley answer a question many folks [...]
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Online Education and Self-Driving Cars
Posted in Internet, Teaching, Technology, tagged Auto, Education, Google, Teaching, Technology, Wired on January 30, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Can One Professor Teach 500,000 Students At Once?
Posted in Teaching, tagged Education, Teaching on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
That’s what former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun aims to do. Sound impossible? Well, he’s already taught a class of 160,000 students. As Felix Salmon recounts: Thrun told the story of his Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class, which ran from October to December last year. It started as a way of putting his Stanford course online — he [...]
How Will Colleges Innovate?
Posted in Teaching, tagged Education, Teaching on July 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
That’s the question that Jeffrey Selingo poses over the The Chronicle of Higher Education (ht: Jack B.): [I]f current economic trends continue, much of traditional academe is going to be forced to change. Families can no longer use their house as an ATM. States are making tough choices about the size of government, and public colleges [...]
The Rubber Room
Posted in Business, Politics, tagged Education, New York City, New Yorker, Unions on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over in the New Yorker, Steven Brill discusses “the battle over New York City’s worst teachers“: These fifteen teachers, along with about six hundred others in six larger Rubber Rooms in the city’s five boroughs, have been accused of misconduct, such as hitting or molesting a student, or, in some cases, of incompetence, in a [...]
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