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Udacity: Udacity
Oliver Cameron, Udacity’s new Director of Mobile Engineering, shares some thoughts on ed tech, what we can do to reinvent higher education by rethinking pacing, and why he’s excited to join the team. This is reposted from Oliver’s blog. Let us know what you think of asynchronous pacing in the comments. If you’d like to join Oliver and the Udacity team in reinventing higher education, we’re hiring! The Story of Building an Education Startup Taking on education’s biggest challenges Most revolutionary companies aren’t born with the intent to change the world, yet there I was trying to do exactly that. I was on the verge of starting my third company, and I wanted to do something truly special. I listed all of the industries I thought I could have an impact in, and quickly became fixated on education. It’s a market that has the potential to impact billions of lives for the better. There are so many students…