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San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity

Posted by Soulskill on from the much-easier-to-stay-home-and-skip-class-when-you're-already-home dept.

New submitter ulatekh writes "San Jose State University is suspending a highly touted collaboration with online provider Udacity to offer low-cost, for-credit online courses after finding that more than half of the students failed to pass the classes. 'Preliminary results from a spring pilot project found student pass rates of 20% to 44% in remedial math, college-level algebra and elementary statistics courses. In a somewhat more promising outcome, 83% of students completed the classes.'"

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  1. Re:Like horses by ShanghaiBill · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You can lead a student to learning, but you can't make them think.... or do the homework.

    Apparently, ye olde traditional brick and mortar schools at least have an edge on making them do their homework, if not actually think...

    Keep in mind that this is San Jose State, which is barely one notch up from a community college. Ambitious, self-motivated students are not common there. I live in San Jose, and I have worked with a number of SJSU interns and graduates. I don't expect any of them to be future Nobel Prize winners. If this same program was done at Berkeley or Stanford, I think you would see different results.