Khan Academy. Distance Learning Courses and Adult Education - The Open University. Udacity’s model. Robert Reich has three very good questions about Sebastian Thrun’s new online university, Udacity, which I wrote about last week.
I spoke to Thrun yesterday, so I took the opportunity to clear them up. Reich begins: 1. Why did Thrun need to quit Stanford? Why not pursue the project under the umbrella of Stanford, with its enormous and global reputation? As Thrun says on his homepage, he quit Stanford on April 1, 2011 — before offering the free class in artificial intelligence — “primarily to continue my employment with Google”. Coursera. UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version).
See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers. Udacity's CS101: A (Partial) Course Evaluation. Udacity, the online learning startup that spun out of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence MOOC last year, is wrapping up its first courses, with final exams due this week and grades soon to follow.
After 7 weeks in “CS101: Building a Search Engine,” I received the end-of-term email from Udacity: “Congratulations to those who finished CS101!” Unfortunately, I’m not one of them. I didn’t finish the class. I tried keeping up with the videos and exercises, but I gave up on completing the homework weeks ago. Initially I thought I’d skip the homework and just take the final. That’s becoming a fairly standard occurrence for me with my attempts to learn to program through these sorts of online classes. My inability to complete these classes does make me look closely at my motivations for signing up in the first place.
Southern New Hampshire University. Coordinates: 43°02′23″N 71°27′14″W / 43.03972°N 71.45389°W / 43.03972; -71.45389 Southern New Hampshire University, also known as SNHU, is a private, nonprofit, coeducational university situated between Manchester and Hooksett, New Hampshire, in the United States.
The university is accredited by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (CIHE) of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and also has specialized accreditation for its schools and programs. History[edit] The university was founded in 1933 by Harry A.B. Shapiro and Gertrude Crockett Shapiro (his wife) as the New Hampshire School of Accounting and Secretarial Science. The 1970s were a time of growth and change. Academics[edit] Southern New Hampshire University is composed of three distinct schools that offer over 100 undergraduate programs, 40 graduate programs, as well as a wide variety of certificate programs.[13] [14] Robert Frost Hall is located on the main campus in Manchester, NH Honors Program[edit] Southern New Hampshire University: The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2012. If you're looking for that old American dream of education, consider Paul LeBlanc.
His mother was a factory worker, his dad a stonemason who cleaned offices on the weekends. The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies 2012. Infographic: Is America Witnessing A Growing Education Bubble? Part II Of II. As Mobile Devices Multiply, Some Colleges Turn Away From Building Campus Apps - Technology. By Josh Keller San Francisco Many colleges have published iPhone apps in the last few years that allow people to get campus news, maps, and other information on Apple's popular smartphones.
Then some colleges found they also needed to develop a version for phones running Google's competing Android system. And some built apps for BlackBerrys as well. But at least a few colleges are now reconsidering the wisdom and the expense of building all those mobile apps. Multiple types of smartphones have become very popular, making mobile Web sites that work on all phones more critical. Think m.college.edu, not iCollege. The distinction between a mobile Web site and a mobile app might seem technical.
The University of California at San Diego, one of the first public universities to offer a mobile application, will end its mobile-application contract with Blackboard next year, according to Brett Pollak, director of the campus Web office. Cut-rate campus. SALEM, N.H. - In this border town where shoppers hunt for tax-free bargains, they can get something else on the cheap: a college education.
A private one, at that. Fast Company Ranks The 10 Most Innovative Education Companies. By alles-schlumpf via Flickr under Creative Commons FastCompany.com published a list of 50 most innovative companies, including a list of their top 10 Most Innovative education companies. Here it is: A private, not-for-profit and nonselective university that is a hotbed of ideas for reimagining higher learning. It’s a favorite of innovation guru Clay Christensen. “President Paul LeBlanc is constantly looking to pilot models that provide the benefits of an SNHU education in different combinations to different people. Knewton helps students study at their own pace and it personalizes learning for them. “A community marketplace for offline classes launched last April..