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Udacity: Sebastian Thrun and Sal Khan Discuss Online Education
Source: TED Sebastian Thrun and Salman Khan talk about about online education and the future of education in TED’s Questions Worth Asking series. The excerpt below, originally posted on the TED blog on January 28, 2014, features the question of whether either man would hire someone whose education comes solely from online classes. As it turns out, both have hired based on demonstrated skill and without looking at degrees. What follows is a discussion of life-long learning, online education, and bridging the skills gap for employment. TED: Would either of you hire somebody whose education came solely from online classes or MOOCs? Salman Khan: If you’re talking about the skills that we’re hiring for, the stuff that’s typically learned in college or graduate school, then absolutely. In fact, we already have. We recently hired two people and we didn’t even know what their degrees were, if they even had degrees. We hired them because of the work they d…