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Late night provisions for Computer Science homework session at Udacity<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nUDACITY<\/p>\n

by Richard White<\/p>\n

2012-04-03<\/p>\n

Today I finished the first online course that I’ve ever taken, thanks to my professor David Evans and Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun… and the experience has changed my life.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t heard about Udacity you might consider a) going to udacity.com<\/a> to wander about the website, or b) reading the excellent writeup in Wired magazine<\/a>. But the upshot of it all is this: education is never going to be the same.<\/p>\n

MIT’s OpenCourseWare<\/a> offerings were a fine way to get the online education experience started—who can argue with access to top-notch professors at a world-class university? And Sal Khan’s Khan Academy<\/a> offers increased granularity in bite-sized chunks at the secondary school level.<\/p>\n

What makes Udacity so amazing, though, is the platform that they’ve developed to deliver and manage true online learning. Thrun identified nine components that he considered essential for education at the university level:<\/p>\n