Architectural Technologist – Sebastian Thrun – set up his own, free-for-all university.

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This is one article you should keep track of and monitor, After helping to pioneer a selection of online courses at Stanford, the man behind the driverless car is leaving the ivory tower to do something potentially more groundbreaking: start a high-quality online university.  Sebastian Thrun, the Googler behind the driverless car and one of the forces behind the university’s super-successful online classes.Thrun is aiming to set up his own, free-for-all university, called Udacity, follow the link to see a sample video and the sign up form. The video is realy cool as it has Serge Brin talking about basic programming, I have enrolled onto the  CS 101 course due to start in Feb, re search engine design, can’t wait.

This is just what I was thinking about in a recent article, my wish to expand my CPD into what I now think of as CE or continuing Education, I know I have used the term Life Long Learning, but CE seems to be more what I want to do.


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