Topic: Udacity

June 1, 2018

Friday Facts: June 1, 2018

It’s Friday! Quotes of note “People who believe themselves above something, or entitled to something more because of past achievements, will find that new opportunities slip away.” – Tyler Bonin, […]

July 26, 2016

NCPA on Higher Education and Online Courses

Online colleges are an attractive alternative to expensive bricks-and-mortar institutions. A July 2016 Issue Brief by Christian Yiu of the National Center for Policy Analysis proposes accreditation reforms to allow […]

October 29, 2013

We can STOP the “You Can’t” Firewall in Higher Education

American universities are widely regarded as the world’s gold standard, but they have their foundation cracks, including a 30 percent graduation rate that is far from the world’s leaders. Scandinavian […]

June 18, 2013

Georgia Tech and Udacity Cross the Rubicon

A lot of folks around the country noticed when Georgia Tech and Udacity announced their intent to create an affordable online masters degree. Michael Horn at the Clayton Christensen Institute […]

June 7, 2013

Friday Facts: June 7, 2013

June 7, 2013 It’s Friday! Quotes of Note “Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was […]

May 31, 2013

Education Reform: Chalk It Up to Technology

The factory model, cookie-cutter approach to learning is fast becoming history in Georgia. By Benita M. Dodd It’s big. In fact, “massive” is a more apt description of the change […]

May 24, 2013

School Year Report Card: Room for Improvement

By Eric Wearne Winston Churchill is credited with saying, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Reflecting on the school year […]

February 4, 2013

Is Online Learning One Answer to Higher Ed Remediation?

Colleges around the country including Emory are constantly experimenting with online learning. Two virtual learning companies — Coursera and Udacity — continue to expand their connections with traditional universities. The […]

January 14, 2013

Isaac Asimov Saw The Future of Learning Way Back in 1988

By Eric Wearne In 1988, Isaac Asimov was interviewed on PBS, and made some truly futuristic pronouncements about online learning (though he didn’t call it that at the time). For […]

October 26, 2012

Minnesota vs. Online Learning (and the First Amendment)

Recently, the state of Minnesota used a state statute to briefly ban online education. The state’s Office of Higher Education (OHE) informed new online education startup Coursera that the company […]

July 19, 2012

Coursera and Georgia Tech Bend the Online Learning Curve

By Eric Wearne Events move quickly in the world of online learning. As an example of how fast: online learning platform Coursera was founded in 2012. Georgia Tech announced a partnership with Coursera this […]

June 29, 2012

What’s a MOOC? Hint: Georgia Tech Already Has One

By Eric Wearne Massively Open Online Courses (“MOOCs”) are a growing trend in higher education. According to Educause’s “7 Things you Should Know About MOOCs,” they are simply “a model […]

April 9, 2012

When Reform is not Enough, Change How the Game is Played

By Eric Wearne Eric Wearne, Senior Fellow, Georgia Public Policy Foundation Harvard University Professor Clayton M. Christensen argues in his book Disrupting Class and elsewhere that the best and most long-lasting […]

March 9, 2012

Taking the Red Pill Takes You to Wonderland

By Eric Wearne In 2011, Sebastian Thrun left his position as a computer science professor at Stanford University. He had offered a course on artificial intelligence, and enrolled 200 Stanford […]