24 January 2012
education — #
Stanford professor gives up tenure to start Udacity free online university
Inspired by the number of people that the Khan Academy’s free video lectures reached, Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun put his own artificial intelligence class online and enrolled 160,000 students. After scrambling to accommodate so many pupils, he came away from the experience with a new vision of education so different that he says he “can’t teach at Stanford again.” Instead, he’s starting an online university called Udacity. Thrun hopes to teach about 200,000 students per class — including grading exams and quizzes — in contrast to the mere hundreds taught at a brick-and-mortar university. The first two classes, starting February 20th, will teach students around the world to build a search engine or program a robotic car, and enrollment is free
22 December 2011
education & technology — #
ShowMe is “an open learning community where you can teach or learn anything.”
28 August 2011
language & education — #
French and German suffer most as numbers studying languages falls to record low
26 July 2011
education & technology — #
South Korea to Replace All Paper Textbooks With Digital Content
25 April 2011
education & art — #
Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma explore hip-hop choreography with cello accopaniment
13 April 2011
education & culture — #
UnCollege is a social movement supporting self-directed higher education.
17 March 2011
education & technology — #
Imagine K12 is “looking to invest time, experience, energy and resources in entrepreneurs who have a passion for education and the technical chops to create their vision.”