By DEVON HAYNIE, US News
San Jose State has also partnered with Udacity, a for-profit MOOC provider with a focus on the hard sciences, to provide several for-credit courses. Students have access to mentors seven days a week to help with concepts and questions. San Jose instructors work with Udacity to create videos and interactive, online exercises for the classes. “We see this as the evolution of MOOCs,” Clarissa Shen, vice president of strategic business and marketing at Udacity, said in an email. “We have brought much more human interaction back into play in order to help students throughout their learning process and giving them that much more access to their instructors.” Earlier this spring, Coursera, the largest of the MOOC providers, announced it would be working with the State University of New York system, the University of Colorado system and eight other university systems and public schools to explore ways of using MOOC technology and content to improve course completion rates, bolster quality and increase access to higher education.
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