Sebastian Thrun threw a wrench in the MOOC model by declaring that massive open online courses don't work for higher education. What's next for the online learning trend? It was about a year ago that ...

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 ...

Online learning, or e-learning, has reached new heights in recent years, with an enormous range of courses now available at the click of a button. The e-learning market is attractive for businesses as ...

Educators and policymakers have long dreamed of providing universal, low cost, first-class higher education. Their wish may come true soon thanks to an unlikely source: Silicon Valley. The mecca of ...

Online educational startup Udacity, with whom I had a very positive experience while taking their CS 101 course Before, students watched the videos and did homework assignments online and then took a ...

Udacity, a startup dedicated to helping to democratize education and make it available online to the masses, has just raised $15 million for its Series B round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz.

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 ...

Sebastian Thrun electrified the world in late 2011 when 160,000 people from around the world signed up to take the free online class that he and colleague Peter Norvig offered at Stanford University ...

Sebastian Thrun has made headlines for a variety of his accomplishments as computer scientist doing groundbreaking work on artificial intelligence. He has long been interested in robotic vehicles, ...