Nov 17th 2013, 16:30, by David Pierce
Sebastian Thrun left a high-powered Silicon Valley life — working in Google's secretive Google X lab, teaching about artificial intelligence and robots at Stanford — to pursue what he deemed a higher calling. Thrun started a company called Udacity, designed to "disrupt the university." His Stanford-caliber classes were online, they were free, and they were accessible to everyone. He taught to hundreds of thousands of people, instead of hundreds.
But, as Thrun tells Fast Company, there was a simple problem: people weren't finishing his classes. A study found that only seven percent of people who take a class like Udacity's actually finish, and most that do already had bachelor's degrees to begin with — free online courses have...
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