by Shane Colvin, Higher Ed Development Association Blog
“Why teach 30 students, when you can teach millions?”
That is what Stanford professor and Google innovator Sebastian Thrun asked his audience while speaking at the at the DLD Conference in Germany. Unexpectedly, he went on to revel that he will be giving up his prestigious tenured position at Stanford to launch his own platform for online teaching. Thrun has called his virtual university Udacity, who’s website proclaims that, “We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we’ve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.” As a matter of fact Udacity now claims to have over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries, and has an army of volunteers to translate the classes into 44 languages.
http://uv-net.uio.no/wpmu/hedda/2012/04/29/guest-blogger-university-2-0/
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