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Udacity: SJSU Pilot Report Released
We are happy to share with our students that a detailed report about the SJSU Plus Spring Pilot is now available.In late 2012, our CEO, Sebastian Thrun, visited the National Science Foundation, and in a conversation with Don Millard the idea was born to create an independent study for our upcoming SJSU Spring Pilot. Shortly thereafter, the NSF funded SJSU for such a study, which hired the RP Group, an independent group of researchers. The report has now been made public by the SJSU Principal Investigator, Elaine Collins, and is available here.The report is worth reading. It contains a rich and insightful analysis of the student body, the outcomes, what went well, and what didn’t. As expressed in a previous blog post from Sebastian, many of the issues that didn’t work were fixed for the Summer Pilot; and we recognize that more work remains. Udacity does take issue with one paragraph from the report: “Another limitation resulted from the difficulty of obtaining Udacity…