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 [...]
It’s Back-to-School Season, Time to Lay Your Bets
Posted in Behavioral Economics, Finance, Microeconomics, tagged Adverse Selection, Insurance, Microeconomics, Moral Hazard, Teaching on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
According to an article over at the Huffington Post (ht Natalie), students at 36 colleges will have a new option when they start classes this fall. Thanks to an outfit named Ultrinsic, students can now bet on whether they will get good grades. Students put up money at the start of the semester and then [...]
The Weird Economics of Cellular Calling Plans
Posted in Technology, tagged Catherine Zeta Jones, iPhone, Teaching on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s New York Times has an amusing article about the complexities of cell phone pricing (ht: Carolyn): HERE’S a consolation prize to the millions who recoil in bafflement from cellphone companies’ labyrinthine price plans, with their ever more intricate arrays of minutes, messages and megabytes: Economists don’t understand them, either. “The whole pricing thing is [...]
Opium Economics in Afghanistan
Posted in Teaching, tagged Afghanistan, Drugs, Teaching on October 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
If you are troubled by opium production in Afghanistan, Jeff Clemens at Harvard has some bad news for you: eradication efforts are doing little to reduce opiate production. (ht: Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution). Moreover, to the extent they are having an effect, it’s to drive up prices and thus enrich the farmers who illicitly [...]
Positive, Normative, and … ?
Posted in Auctions, Economy, Teaching, tagged Auctions, Economics, Teaching on August 27, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Am I the only one who feels unfulfilled by the standard distinction between positive and normative economics? I am gearing up to return to the classroom next week, to teach microeconomics to incoming masters students at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Anyone who’s experienced the first day of micro class knows what’s coming. After introducing [...]
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