In announcing San Jose State University’s contract with the online course developer Udacity to offer three innovative math classes, Gov. Jerry Brown bristled at a press conference Tuesday when the ...

Silicon Valley companies often clamor about the shortage of qualified STEM workers--particularly those in the computer science and engineering ranks. Sometimes, competition gets so fierce that they ...

After two semesters of experimentation, San Jose State University has decided to take a “breather” in a project aimed at determining whether Udacity, a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in ...

With the troubled economy, many people are facing unemployment or looking for a way to learn new skills to make themselves more appealing on the job market. For some, this means pursuing an advanced ...

If there was any question as to Sebastian Thrun and Udacity’s resolve to re-imagine higher education in a more affordable, accessible virtual classroom — or their ability to actually make any real ...

This article is part of the collection: A Lifetime of Back to School: Microcredentials in Higher Education. No one owns the term “master’s degree.” But upstart education providers dream of getting a ...

After six months of high-profile experimentation, San Jose State University plans to “pause” its work with Udacity, a company that promises to deliver low-cost, high-quality online education to the ...

The ever-ballooning field of online education took a big hit this summer when news broke that more than half of the students who took Udacity‘s online courses at San Jose State University this spring ...

Udacity, a startup focused on bringing free university-level educational worldwide, is today announcing a significant new investment: $15 million in Series B funding in a round led by top VC firm ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Professor Sebastian Thrun, who taught Stanford’s open-enrollment online course on artificial intelligence last ...