Comments on: Some Questions about Udacity (and about creative disruption in higher education)

By: Bang your head (Peer grading edition). | More or Less Bunk

Bang your head (Peer grading edition). | More or Less Bunk — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:56:47 +0000

[...] time trying to figure out a way to make the wrong answer right? As David Golumbia has explained: MOOCs are being deployed specifically as part of an economic argument whose consequences for liberal…: they are designed to make liberal arts education emerge as too expensive for us to [...]

By: Centralization and the “Democratization” of Higher Education - uncomputing

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:34:21 +0000

[...] have mentioned so far typically do not occur in large lecture halls. The problems with this is that MOOCs are being deployed specifically as part of an economic argument whose consequences for liberal…: they are designed to make liberal arts education emerge as too expensive for us to afford. [...]

By: Udacity & Khan Academy « the Squished Diorama

Udacity & Khan Academy « the Squished Diorama — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:15:09 +0000

[...] Some Questions about Udacity (and about creative disruption in higher education) (stanford.edu) [...]

By: Stanford Student

Stanford Student — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:48:09 +0000

I took the AI class as a Stanford student, and one disappointing aspect of the class was that we were forced to use the Know Labs platform for discussing the course with professors, TAs and classmates. There are better tools that exist for that task (Piazza is popular these days), but we were forced to be beta testers for a for-profit endeavor. It struck me as a bit uncool, though I hope Udacity/Know Labs is ultimately successful.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:16:13 +0000

So what is stopping anyone with a terminal degree from offering their own courses for a certificate of completion? I hold dual PhDs in organizational management and leadership. Will employers accept a certificate from person with a certificate from a PhD versus one from Stanford?

By: exim

exim — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:54:01 +0000

The main thing is that all materials should be available for free for everyone. Other “issues” are not important for me.

Yet another man from a 3rd world….

By: Udacity’s model | Felix Salmon

Udacity’s model | Felix Salmon — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:47:05 +0000

[...] Rob Reich has three very good questions about Sebastian Thrun’s new online university, Udacity, which I wrote about last week. I spoke to Thrun yesterday, so I took the opportunity to clear them up. [...]

By: Elaine Morita

Elaine Morita — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:48:52 +0000

Thrun’s course is an interesting development; it shows the hunger for well taught university science,engineering or math courses. My daughter is a senior majoring in chemical engineering, she says that lectures/ tutorials made at the university level would be useful so that students can fill in gaps from their classroom lectures on advanced topics. Some may be available on the MIT opencourses.
In either Jackman or Airspace Review they mention professors trying to weed out students, this is the opposite of what universities should be doing to produce more science and engineering students. I think Khan has the right idea; turn the learning around- students getting the lectures online and the classroom for questions and homework.
Class time could be used for creative projects, discussion and applications part of education. University professors would perform in their best capacity challenging students to use the information, teaching innovation.
-trying to synthesize how Thrun’s disruptive teaching fits into the picture for places like Stanford.