Massive Open Online Courses -- and the $100 masters degree (Forbes)

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Submitted by GCA10 on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @11:37AM

GCA10 writes: Forbes reports on the latest project of Google inventor Sebastian Thrun (the proponent of self-driving cars.) He's moved on to education now, believing that conventional university teaching is way too costly, inefficient and ineffective to survive for long. So he has started Udacity, which aims to deliver an online version of a master's degree for $100 per student.

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