{"id":1121,"date":"2012-01-24T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2012\/01\/24\/george-siemens-reflects-on-sebastian-thruns-decision-of-leaving-stanford-university-to-start-udacity\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T19:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:50:21","slug":"george-siemens-on-thruns-leaving-stanford-university-to-start-udacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/george-siemens-on-thruns-leaving-stanford-university-to-start-udacity\/","title":{"rendered":"George Siemens on Thrun leaving Stanford University to start Udacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Siemens reflects on Sebastian Thrun&#8217;s decision of leaving Stanford University to start Udacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a long running question that influences my vision of education: If we were to design education today, without the legacy baggage of the existing system, what would it look like? I don\u2019t have a clear answer, but I think it would look similar to open online courses: distributed, leveraging network effects, participative, peer\/social pedagogy, large scale sensemaking, artifact creation and sharing, knowledge growth and domain expansion, etc. There is substance to massive open online courses (MOOCs) that goes well beyond the current buzz and hype. This substance, I believe, is about aligning teaching and learning with the way in which information is created, negotiated, and shared through digital and social networks. It is in direct contrast with the value proposition of the current university system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/i-cant-teach-at-stanford-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cI can\u2019t teach at Stanford again\u201d<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">Open online courses really mess things up. The force educators\/funders\/learners to question the value point of traditional education. Over the past four years, many different open online courses have been offered \u2013 some through formal universities (U of Manitoba \u2013 Stephen Downes and I, BYU \u2013 David Wiley, U of Regina \u2013 Alec Couros, Stanford \u2013 Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, U of Illinois -Ray Schroeder).<br \/>\nI have a long running question that influ&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112390264067431209914\/posts\/URfX6KD6C45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Siemens reflects on Sebastian Thrun&#8217;s decision of leaving Stanford University to start Udacity. &#8220;I have a long running question that influences my vision of education: If we were to design education today, without the legacy baggage of the existing system, what would it look like? I don\u2019t have a clear answer, but I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-i5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}