Udacity - Educating the 21st Century

[Owen Densmore]

The AI stanford course team have decided to move to their own education startup:

http://www.udacity.com/

Sebastian Thrun gave up his tenured position for this!

Hard to believe education is busting out all over like this.  Google is in the mix, I believe.  And the MITx project is even working with an independent third party for accreditation for the courses (not MIT equivalents, but a recognized credit program of some sort.) It looks like Udacity is also pursuing credits, even a degree.

   -- Owen

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From: AI Class E-mail Robot <h...@ai-class.com>

Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM

Subject: New classes from the ai-class team!

To: Owen Densmore <ow...@backspaces.net>

Hi Owen Densmore, 

Thank you for your interest in AI Class and congratulations to those who

successfully graduated. We were totally amazed that over 23,000 students 

made it all the way to the end in a Stanford graduate-level class.

Due to popular demand, we are teaching a follow-up class: AI for

Robotics at www.udacity.com . Also due to popular demand, we now have 

a programming environment, so you can develop and test software. Our 

goal is to teach you to program a self-driving car in 7 weeks. This 

is a topic very close to my heart, and I am eager to share it with 

you. (This class builds on the concepts in ai-class, but ai-class is 

NOT required).

We are also launching an introduction to programming class, where

students will learn to program a search engine, without any prior

knowledge of programming. This will be great for students new to

computer science.

We are doing this with a new university: Udacity. In the next months,

we will offer an entire computer science curriculum through Udacity,

and offer certification services so that an entire degree can be obtained

online.

I would love to see you in class again! I would also love if you could

help us spread the word and recruit students. Udacity is an experiment

in democratizing education, in making free education available for

everyone in the world. It can only succeed if you join us and help

spread the word.

Sebastian

[Maury]

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