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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:Assumption by intermodal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Online courses are the collegiate equivalent of independent study programs. Independent study programs are definitely not for everyone.

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