Comments on: Thrun on the Udacity model http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/2012/01/31/thrun-on-the-udacity-model/ Dept. of Political Science, Stanford University Wed, 01 May 2013 23:04:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Future of Higher Education | The Valley FloorThe Valley Floor http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/2012/01/31/thrun-on-the-udacity-model/comment-page-1/#comment-2329 The Future of Higher Education | The Valley FloorThe Valley Floor Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:51:15 +0000 http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/?p=639#comment-2329 [...] the 3 programs discussed in this post, Udacity is the only for-profit (although Thrun’s comments on being for-profit are rather interesting). Udacity is currently running their first for-credit [...] [...] the 3 programs discussed in this post, Udacity is the only for-profit (although Thrun’s comments on being for-profit are rather interesting). Udacity is currently running their first for-credit [...]

]]> By: London http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/2012/01/31/thrun-on-the-udacity-model/comment-page-1/#comment-759 London Mon, 21 May 2012 14:48:37 +0000 http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/?p=639#comment-759 There are lots of uncertainties arount the concept behind Udacity and I am glad you clear out some points on here. The online education is the future for any educational institution and there are no two opinions on the matter realated to it! The questions you put are really adequate and I hope they do not remain as rhetoric ones, as more opionated individuals will give a light on them. There are lots of uncertainties arount the concept behind Udacity and I am glad you clear out some points on here. The online education is the future for any educational institution and there are no two opinions on the matter realated to it! The questions you put are really adequate and I hope they do not remain as rhetoric ones, as more opionated individuals will give a light on them.

]]> By: Why http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/2012/01/31/thrun-on-the-udacity-model/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Why Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:38:21 +0000 http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/?p=639#comment-593 Basically Stanford is great at creative disruptive technologies and now Stanford is disrupting itself (education) - they had to slow things down and figure out what it all means. Basically Stanford is great at creative disruptive technologies and now Stanford is disrupting itself (education) – they had to slow things down and figure out what it all means.

]]> By: Why http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/2012/01/31/thrun-on-the-udacity-model/comment-page-1/#comment-591 Why Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:32:15 +0000 http://www.stanford.edu/group/reichresearch/cgi-bin/site/?p=639#comment-591 The reason Thrun had to start Udacity and take his model outside of Stanford is because the writing was on the wall that the university going to have to analyze how to go forward because his class was such a huge success and that was going to cause delays as has now happened with the numerous online classes that were supposed to start this quarter (http://www.cs101-class.org/). See below for a sample email that was sent out to students. I really hope Stanford does not prevent professors from putting their classes online - it would be a great loss. There is immense potential for online education to empower people. Email sent to NLP students: We hope you are as excited as we are for the forthcoming launch of Natural Language Processing! Unfortunately, we've just learned that the launch of the NLP class (and all our other online courses here) has been delayed for reasons beyond our control. We aren't sure how long the delay will be - the range is from a few days to a week or possibly several weeks. We'll let you know a firm date as soon as we possibly can. We realize that some of you will have made plans based on the course starting January 23, so we apologize for any difficulties that the delay causes. The good news is that the course is looking great, with some exciting lectures and fun assignments that we're quite proud of, and we're thrilled that over 45,000 of you have signed up! See you soon online! Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning The reason Thrun had to start Udacity and take his model outside of Stanford is because the writing was on the wall that the university going to have to analyze how to go forward because his class was such a huge success and that was going to cause delays as has now happened with the numerous online classes that were supposed to start this quarter (http://www.cs101-class.org/). See below for a sample email that was sent out to students. I really hope Stanford does not prevent professors from putting their classes online – it would be a great loss. There is immense potential for online education to empower people.

Email sent to NLP students:

We hope you are as excited as we are for the forthcoming launch of Natural Language Processing! Unfortunately, we’ve just learned that the launch of the NLP class (and all our other online courses here) has been delayed for reasons beyond our control. We aren’t sure how long the delay will be – the range is from a few days to a week or possibly several weeks. We’ll let you know a firm date as soon as we possibly can.

We realize that some of you will have made plans based on the course starting January 23, so we apologize for any difficulties that the delay causes.

The good news is that the course is looking great, with some exciting lectures and fun assignments that we’re quite proud of, and we’re thrilled that over 45,000 of you have signed up!

See you soon online!

Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning

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