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Udacity: Sebastian Thrun: Learn. Think. Do. That's the Udacity experiment.
"Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn." (Herbert A Simon; referenced in "How Learning Works" by Susan Ambrose et al).What a great quote!Herb was my friend and mentor at Carnegie Mellon University. And he was perhaps Carnegie Mellon's most dedicated teacher. As a Nobel laureate in economics and a Turing Award winner, Herb made a point to teach the freshman language class. I recall being in an auditorium filled with 800 students with Herb waving dictionaries at us: a big comprehensive one and a small one. Which one, he quizzed us, should you take with you when travelling? After an uncomfortably long pause with students guessing - after all this was just a yes/no question - he triumphantly proclaimed, it's the small one. Because it fits in your pocket. Herb's quote above summarizes all there is to know about Udacity. At Udac…