The Revolution:Top Ten Disruptors of Education by Jack Hidary

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Jack Hidary writes, "New online learning models are bursting from startups and top universities, bridging the educational divide."

We are in the midst of a revolution that will bring high-quality education to hundreds of millions of people who have never had access to this level of learning before.

These tools will reach those in developing cities and countries but also foment a revolution in the U.S. classroom as they change our perception of what learning can be.
Here are the leading new platfoms disupting the education world:

1. Udacity
Sebastian Thurn and his colleagues hit on wild success with their Stanford computer science courses when they opened them up to the online public.The team has left Stanford to start Udacity with venture backing and a new slate of courses. They have hit 150,000+ students in each course, signaling the demand for great online education.

2. Coursera

Welcome To Coursera 


Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera to bring high-quality university courses to the masses. They are working with Princeton, Michigan, Penn, Stanford and others to fashion online courses which include video, online testing and peer support.
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Related link
Udacity (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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All in all, these disrupters will bring high-quality learning to millions of people in the U.S. and around the world who never had access to this material. Now the questions are:
a. Will it scale?
b. Will these models turn out to be sustainable?
c. How do we measure the intangibles of in-person learning and how can we replicate those online?
d. Who will disrupt these disupters?

Source: Huffington Post (blog)