Researcher and professor Sebastian Thrun turned a lot of heads when he headed a bold experiment in online teaching at Stanford University by offering an artificial intelligence course for free. Of the 160,000 enrollees, 23,000 graduated the course with a Stanford University certificate and a head full of computer science knowledge. The experience of teaching a course on such a massive scale apparently left its mark on Thrun as well, who announced today at the Digital Life Design conference that he was leaving Stanford and was heading up a new free education project called Udacity.
Like the Stanford course, Udacity will be focused on computer science courses taught at the university level and free of charge. There are currently two courses available. The first, CS 101: Building a Search Engine, will require no previous knowledge of programming and aims to teach the fundamentals of computer science in seven weeks. It will be taught by Thrun and University of Virginia professor Dave Evans. The second course is a follow up to the Stanford AI course called CS 373: Programming a Robotic Car, and will certainly touch on Thrun’s passion of driverless vehicles.
Damn schools, damn public education and damn your priestly protection of knowledge, Sirs!!!
Well...we're starting to run into the problem with intellectual property. Intellectual property is a protection for the priesthood. They don't want knowledge to be free, they want it to be governed by property rights. They want to OWN your thoughts.
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Researcher and professor Sebastian Thrun turned a lot of heads when he headed a bold experiment in online teaching at Stanford University by offering an artificial intelligence course for free. Of the 160,000 enrollees, 23,000 graduated the course with a Stanford University certificate and a head full of computer science knowledge. The experience of teaching a course on such a massive scale apparently left its mark on Thrun as well, who announced today at the Digital Life Design conference that he was leaving Stanford and was heading up a new free education project called Udacity.
Like the Stanford course, Udacity will be focused on computer science courses taught at the university level and free of charge. There are currently two courses available. The first, CS 101: Building a Search Engine, will require no previous knowledge of programming and aims to teach the fundamentals of computer science in seven weeks. It will be taught by Thrun and University of Virginia professor Dave Evans. The second course is a follow up to the Stanford AI course called CS 373: Programming a Robotic Car, and will certainly touch on Thrun’s passion of driverless vehicles.
Damn schools, damn public education and damn your priestly protection of knowledge, Sirs!!!
Thank you VERY MUCH for the link, Demon.
Sounds interesting.............
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Enki wrote:Well...we're starting to run into the problem with intellectual property. Intellectual property is a protection for the priesthood. They don't want knowledge to be free, they want it to be governed by property rights. They want to OWN your thoughts.
Yeah. It's funny to watch people try to push water uphill- except they are arresting people that refuse to deny the the existence of gravity.
If this trend continues, what we see in educational outcomes will increasingly resemble those of the socioeconomic income structure in this country. A vanishingly small yet meteoric and predominant prodigy class on the extreme right tail of the bell curve (top 0.5-1%), a significant boost for the top 5-10%, slightly for the top 15-20%, nothing for the rest of curve, and arguably dramatic if not shocking downgrades for the bottom 25-30%. There is no gain/loss for those in or near the middle, because there won't be any.