Stanford to Work With EdX Open-Source Learning Platform

Stanford isn’t actually joining the 12-school EdX consortium, but rather integrating into the EdX platform when it is open-sourced on June 1.
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In a Twist, Udacity Will Offer Cheap, Remedial Public School Algebra Courses

Udacity’s MOOCs aren’t just for aspirational personal enrichment anymore.
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Harvard and MIT Launch $60M Nonprofit Online EdX Platform

Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today are launching a nonprofit, open source joint online learning venture called EdX, with the first courses to start in the fall of this year.
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Interviewing Tech’s Best Multitaskers: Sebastian Thrun and Jack Dorsey

Charlie Rose aired a pair of interviews this Wednesday with Sebastian Thrun and Jack Dorsey, two tech guys who have much in common.
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Glassmap and Highlight Take on the Next Frontier of Location Sharing: Doing It All the Time

New location-sharing apps promise to provide more value to users than ever — but they will surely teeter awfully close to the edge of creepy for many people.
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Watch: Sebastian Thrun Leaves Stanford to Teach Online

Stanford and Google’s Sebastian Thrun announced on stage that he is giving up his tenured professorship to teach free online courses at a new start-up he’s founded, called Udacity.
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Treehouse Turns Learning to Build a Web Site Into a Game With Code Racer

Code Racer is an online game that pits newbie coders and designers against each other to demonstrate their basic skills — as fast as they can.
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Happy 20th Anniversary to Silicon Valley’s First Web Site

On Dec. 12, 1991, Paul Kunz set up a Web interface based on a Web server to search a popular database of particle physics literature, and sent an email to Tim Berners-Lee about it.
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Wheelz Up: Another P2P Car-Sharing Service Launches

Peer-to-peer car-sharing service Wheelz launches today at Stanford with a team that includes the former CEO of Mercedes-Benz’s North American R&D.
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Great Expectations: Going Off the Social Media Grid

Going off the social media grid can have as much of an impact on the recipients of a person’s status updates as it does on the traveler.
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Fired Facebook Acquisitions Exec Lands at Twitter

Wael Ghonim Visits Silicon Valley But Leaves Google

Longtime Facebook Biz Dev Leader Ali Rosenthal to Depart

Gravity Wants to Instantly Personalize Any Content Site