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April 5, 2012 12:44 am GMT
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Ex-Stanford Teachers New Startup Brings University-Level Education To All [TCTV]
Using Khan Academy as inspiration, Sebastian Thrun decided to bring his Stanford class on artificial intelligence online. Anyone could sign up for free. And 160,000 people from around the world did. He saw the power of creating interactive lectures and distributing them for free. He left Stanford and launched Udacity, a company focused on bringing free university-level education to the world.In the interview above, Sebastian Thrun, Co-Founder of Udacity, talks about how he will help students improve their careers, whether or not the goal is to replace traditional universities, how the classes are different from iTunes U style taped lectures, and why some of his Stanford students preferred to watch him online.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/yXtU1SDMaQA/
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