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September 3, 2013 12:31 am GMT
Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun believes that in 50 years there will only be ten institutions in the world that offer higher education, and that Udacity — a startup that offers STEM-heavy free online courses — will be one of them. Thrun may be on to something: As the platforms for information distribution broaden due to the Internet, more heavily regulated legacy industries like finance, health and education will inevitably see their outdated structures dissolve and be replaced by something new. The jury is still out on what exactly that something new is for education, though startups like Udacity, Coursera, Edmodo and Khan Academy are paving the way, from elementary school onwards.But despite technological advances, at the top of the food chain, many universities are reluctant to give up on their elite status as the keepers of knowledge. And many K-12 schools struggle with paradox of choice when it comes to which startup platforms to experiment with. How do you know what will help students learn and what will eventually be a time suck? “We might have a system with vastly different tiers, in which some people get the ‘full campus experience’ with nice buildings and live professors while (many) others study as best they can from home with packaged classes and giant peer review forums,” educator Nicholas Jenkins asserts, “But let’s hope we end up somewhere in the middle. Debt is going to be as big a driver of these changes as is technology. Or rather, the impacts of debt and technology will converge to drive the transformation.” Jenkins isa Stanford Professor who emailed me earlier today, pitching the Stanford English department’s latest attempt at leveraging technology for learning:Kindred Britain. Thrun will be joining California Lieutenant Governor and UC RegentGavin Newsom on stage at Disrupt SF to school us on how the education space will play out over the next two years, two decades and two centuries … Because it will take a long time — and a pile of money — to build the next great educational institution. Image via Wikipedia Sebastian Thrun Sebastian has set his sights on democratizing higher education. Co-founder and CEO of Udacity, Sebastian is also a Research Professor at Stanford University and a Google Fellow, as well as the inventor of the autonomous car and project lead on Google Glass. Thrun is a former Director of the Stanford AI Lab. He led the
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Sebastian Thrun And Gavin Newsom To School Us At Disrupt SF
Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun believes that in 50 years there will only be ten institutions in the world that offer higher education, and that Udacity — a startup that offers STEM-heavy free online courses — will be one of them. Thrun may be on to something: As the platforms for information distribution broaden due to the Internet, more heavily regulated legacy industries like finance, health and education will inevitably see their outdated structures dissolve and be replaced by something new. The jury is still out on what exactly that something new is for education, though startups like Udacity, Coursera, Edmodo and Khan Academy are paving the way, from elementary school onwards.But despite technological advances, at the top of the food chain, many universities are reluctant to give up on their elite status as the keepers of knowledge. And many K-12 schools struggle with paradox of choice when it comes to which startup platforms to experiment with. How do you know what will help students learn and what will eventually be a time suck? “We might have a system with vastly different tiers, in which some people get the ‘full campus experience’ with nice buildings and live professors while (many) others study as best they can from home with packaged classes and giant peer review forums,” educator Nicholas Jenkins asserts, “But let’s hope we end up somewhere in the middle. Debt is going to be as big a driver of these changes as is technology. Or rather, the impacts of debt and technology will converge to drive the transformation.” Jenkins isa Stanford Professor who emailed me earlier today, pitching the Stanford English department’s latest attempt at leveraging technology for learning:Kindred Britain. Thrun will be joining California Lieutenant Governor and UC RegentGavin Newsom on stage at Disrupt SF to school us on how the education space will play out over the next two years, two decades and two centuries … Because it will take a long time — and a pile of money — to build the next great educational institution. Image via Wikipedia Sebastian Thrun Sebastian has set his sights on democratizing higher education. Co-founder and CEO of Udacity, Sebastian is also a Research Professor at Stanford University and a Google Fellow, as well as the inventor of the autonomous car and project lead on Google Glass. Thrun is a former Director of the Stanford AI Lab. He led theOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vLaalo32BnU/
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