This articulates a lot of the misgivings I have about these attempts at reinventing education online. Fundamentally, the problem isn't a lack of technology in education--Udacity took a bad stats class and gave it to the world. Not a great way to prove their worth.
Good classes are hard to make and run. Technological facilitation can make a good class better and it can bring a good class to the world, but the limiting factor here is still quality.
As an aside, Thrun also demonstrated that in many cases those who "do," cannot teach. And he should continue to "do," and find better teachers to do the teaching.
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This articulates a lot of the misgivings I have about these attempts at reinventing education online. Fundamentally, the problem isn't a lack of technology in education--Udacity took a bad stats class and gave it to the world. Not a great way to prove their worth.
Good classes are hard to make and run. Technological facilitation can make a good class better and it can bring a good class to the world, but the limiting factor here is still quality.
As an aside, Thrun also demonstrated that in many cases those who "do," cannot teach. And he should continue to "do," and find better teachers to do the teaching.