Udacity drops free certificates
The massive open online course (MOOC) platform Udacity will no longer offer completion certificates for free, the company announced this week. While students can still take the courses…
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Udacity says pass rates rising in SJSU MOOC experiment
When San Jose State University partnered with massive open online course provider Udacity to provide low cost MOOCs for credit, it was heralded as a game changer by…
Udacity CEO says MOOC ‘magic formula’ emerging
After weathering a round of negative publicity, Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun believes vindication is at hand, InformationWeek reports.
Georgia Tech to offer MOOC master’s degree on the cheap
Georgia Tech will offer an online master’s degree in computer science for about one-sixth the cost of a traditional master’s degree through a partnership with AT&T and Udacity,…
San Jose State to offer groundbreaking low-cost online courses for credit
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Popular video forecasts the end of traditional higher education
In Bill Sams’ future, only the children of the ultra-wealthy will attend on-campus college courses, the student loan industry will collapse, and Google will build an omniscient online…