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Udacity: Udacity: Innovation is in our DNA
At Udacity, our mission is to set up students for success. From the earliest days of Udacity, we always loved to try new things. We started the first truly massive MOOC; we invented an entirely new interactive, scalable learning experience; we also were first to partner with academic institutions to leverage the MOOC platform into credit-bearing and degree-bearing offerings; and we are first in working with the tech industry to jointly develop training for skills necessary for employment around the world. Our desire to innovate is now leading us to our next chapter. We have always been dissatisfied with the finishing rates of our MOOCs. We simply couldn’t imagine a future of higher education that leaves 95% of its students behind. Relative to the goal of providing high-quality education to the most students possible, we believed our team could build a much better product. So, we have experimented with new forms of online education that go way beyond the basic MOOC. We add…