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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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  2. Re:Is that not a good thing? by Mr.+Freeman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not in this case. We're talking about remedial mathematics and elementary statistics here. These are courses that every adult in this entire country should have a firm grasp of. It's absolutely ridiculous that more than 5% of these students are failing these courses.

    This means that we have adults, people in charge of running their own lives, who don't fully comprehend how fractions or percentages work. There are people who are eligible to obtain loans and credit that can't calculate compound interest. It's a fucking miracle that we've managed to come this far while being this ignorant.

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