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Udacity Will Offer Masters Degrees in CS From Georgia Tech
In yet another groundbreaking online education deal (between Udacity and Coursera, there are at least two per week!), Udacity will now offer masters degrees in computer science via a partnership between Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing and AT&T. These MOOC degrees will cost less than $7,000 and be labeled separately as an “Online Master of Science” degree.
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.
Former MTV Exec Mika Salmi Thinks Live Online Education Is the Next Big Thing (Video)
It might have been the biggest MOOC ever when 150,000 people tuned in for a weeklong CreativeLive Photoshop course.
In a Twist, Udacity Will Offer Cheap, Remedial Public School Algebra Courses
Udacity’s MOOCs aren’t just for aspirational personal enrichment anymore.
Education Start-Up Udacity Raises Funds From Andreessen Horowitz
Sebastian Thrun gets $15 million for more MOOCs.
And for Google X’s Next Trick, It Will Identify Cat Videos
A neural network of 16,000 computers presented with stills from 10 million YouTube videos taught itself to recognize cats.
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.
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.
Stanford Professors Launch Coursera With $16M From Kleiner Perkins and NEA
There seems to be something in the water at Stanford University that’s making faculty members leave their more-than-perfectly-good jobs and go online.
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.