By Katy Murphy, Bay Area News Group
San Jose State University will announce Tuesday the latest innovation in the rapidly changing world of online college education: for-credit courses, at $150 apiece, for high school, community college and San Jose State students. The pilot project, a partnership with the Silicon Valley startup Udacity, will start small, with three courses and 100 students in each. The courses — entry level mathematics, elementary statistics and college algebra — were designed by San Jose State professors, but will use Udacity’s online platform. Udacity, a Palo Alto-based company started by three roboticists, is one of the leading providers of free online courses offered to anyone in the world with an Internet connection — massive open online courses, or MOOCs. This venture, however, will allow students to earn college credits upon successful completion of the course.
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