Sebastian Thrun left a high-powered Silicon Valley life — working in Google's secretive Google X lab, teaching about artificial intelligence and robots at Stanford — to pursue what he deemed a higher calling. Thrun started a company called Udacity, designed to "disrupt the university." His Stanford-caliber classes were online, they were free, and they were accessible to everyone. He taught to hundreds of thousands of people, instead of hundreds.
But, as Thrun tells Fast Company , there was a simple problem: people weren't finishing his classes. A study found that only seven percent of people who take a class like Udacity's actually finish, and most that do already had bachelor's degrees to begin with — free online courses have...
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