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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In January, a group of prominent leaders gathered at San Jose State University to launch what they promised would be a revolution in the delivery of higher education. In the ensuing frenzy of press ...

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 ...

Ask Sebastian Thrun what makes him tick, and the inventor and Google Fellow ­offers up three favorite themes: big open problems, a desire to help people and “disrespect for authority.” Thrun, 45, has ...

Udacity helped start the whole MOOC craze several years ago, offering online courses that drew tens of thousands of students and sparking a conversation about whether these new online programs could ...