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Udacity: Sebastian Thrun: Improving our for-credit college path with SJSU Plus
Udacity has a simple vision: to make great college-level classes available to everyone (and anyone). And we know that to attain that vision we not only have to be great teachers, but also great students -- so with everything we do, we are committed to learning, improving, and then learning more. That’s why we decided, together with our partner San Jose State University, to pause the SJSU Plus program (the MOOC for college credit pathway we piloted this spring) and use the fall months to retool and optimize the experience for the students we most want to reach. While pass rates in the pilot were not as high as we would have liked, there is some context around the pilot and our next steps with SJSU that’s critical to understand: The student population in these classes was very different than what you’d see in traditional SJSU classes. Specifically, many of these students attended Title I high schools, weren’t current college students, or had previously requi…