Tag: online classes

Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up

Jan 26, 2012

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mwkruse

in Education, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet)

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up … Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed today that he had given up his teaching role at the institution to found Udacity, a start-up offering low-cost online classes. He made the…