The audacity of Udacity: Google’s Sebastian Thrun vs. elite university diplomas.
Education start-up Udacity is disrupting higher education in all the right places.
Last year, Stanford professor, Google vice-president, and engineer Sebastian Thrun ran an experiment. He opened one of his classes to the world by putting his lectures and course content online.
160,000 students later, Thrun deemed the experiment a resounding success. He promptly resigned and started Udacity, an independent education company whose stated mission is to “democratize education”.
Sebastian Thrun is the brains behind Google’s self-driving car. He marries his desire to help people with a “disrespect for authority” (which is a nice shorthand for the RSE philosophy).
Other new projects, like Harvard and MIT’s edX have opened Ivy League courses to the world, but Thrun is striking deeper. He’s challenging the foundation of elite education itself: credentialism.
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Last year, Stanford professor, Google vice-president, and engineer Sebastian Thrun ran an experiment. He opened one of his classes to the world by putting his lectures and course content online.
160,000 students later, Thrun deemed the experiment a resounding success. He promptly resigned and started Udacity, an independent education company whose stated mission is to “democratize education”.
Sebastian Thrun is the brains behind Google’s self-driving car. He marries his desire to help people with a “disrespect for authority” (which is a nice shorthand for the RSE philosophy).
Sebastian Thrun photo by Forbes.
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