By Andrea Belz, Tech News World
One wave of the future may be schools like Udacity, Sebastian Thrun’s new university, described as a reaction to the discovery that more than 160,000 people enrolled in an online class Thrun taught at Stanford. This could enable elite universities to open their doors, suggests Felix Salmon. But the whole point of elite universities is that the door is closed — so look for independent efforts like Udacity to thrive independently of existing brick-and-mortar colleges. ( The model for independent educational institutions may be accelerated by the reluctance of faculty to accept online education. Chief academic officers report that only 30 percent of faculty members accept online learning as legitimate as of 2009, based on the Sloan Survey.
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