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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? Indeed, hadn’t he already carried out a demonstration proof of the concept with his Artificial Intelligence class at Stanford?
Why not just continue with that in expanded form at Stanford? 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”. This helps to answer another of Reich’s questions. What’s more, the online version of the course, which was not hosted at Stanford’s website, was very careful with its Stanford branding. Leaving Stanford, Thrun told me, “was the only way I could pull this off. 2. 3. 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. Here is another video Nick created for this class. 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. There were a lot of things I really liked about Udacity, and frankly when the course opens for sign-ups again, I’ll probably re-enroll.
What I liked: 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 1. 2. 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. In 1961, it was incorporated and renamed New Hampshire College of Accounting and Commerce. The 1970s were a time of growth and change.
Academics[edit] Robert Frost Hall is located on the main campus in Manchester, NH School of Arts & Sciences[edit] The School of Arts & Sciences contains the following academic departments:[15] Greek life[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. LeBlanc, one of five siblings, was the only one to graduate from college. This year, one of his daughters won a Rhodes scholarship. "When I look at my mother and my daughter," says LeBlanc, "the missing link is education. " Now, as president of Southern New Hampshire University, LeBlanc is trying to supply that missing link for a new generation, by using technology to transform an 80-year-old college into a modern education powerhouse.
That little operation has turned into SNHU's Center for Online and Continuing Education (COCE), the largest online-degree provider in New England. The opportunity is huge. Unlike many educators, LeBlanc understands customer service. SNHU, meanwhile, is busy questioning the shape of its own future. SNHU's success has attracted potential partners who could help spread this model.
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. Bradley C. A 'Natural Trend' Some observers, including Mr. 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. The campus, if it can generously be called that, encompasses the third floor of a new brick building in a nondescript suburban office park just off Interstate 93. With pale peach walls, gold-framed Monet posters, and fake ficus plants, the environs could be mistaken for a dentist office. But inside at this satellite of Southern New Hampshire University, freshmen study Greek tragedy, the Roman Empire, and business statistics. Tuition costs just $10,000 a year. Twenty miles north, in Manchester, students on the school's wooded main campus shell out $25,000 in tuition to attend classes taught by some of the same professors. At a college stripped to its academic core, some higher education leaders worry that students are missing the dearly held residential experience.
But, LeBlanc added: "I'm not sure that improves education. 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. SNHU Advantage, for example, is a streamlined satellite program conducted at an offsite office park where 45 “less confident” students complete their first two years of general ed requirements in four hours a day.” Knewton helps students study at their own pace and it personalizes learning for them.
“A community marketplace for offline classes launched last April.. “For becoming a social hub for homework help, course selection, note taking, and finding scholarships.