Can one professor teach 500,000 students at once?
Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun has already taught a class of 160,000. Now he's aiming to teach 500,000 students.
Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun has already taught a class of 160,000. Now he's aiming to teach 500,000 students.
By Donald Marron, Guest blogger
That鈥檚 what former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun aims to do.
Sound impossible? Well, he鈥檚 already taught a class of 160,000 students. As Felix Salmon recounts:
聽Inspired by that experience, Thrun has now founded Udacity, a private online university. As Nick DeSantis of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports:
That Wonderland will be a serious challenge to traditional chalk-and-talk universities 鈥� and a wonderful opportunity to democratize knowledge around the globe.