Sebastian was a sucessful lecturer on Stanford University on robotics. He was so successful that his class held 200 students, while it's normal with 20-30. The last course he held was on Artificial Intelligence. Inspired by Khan Academy, we asked to have his course online, and free. He awaited 500 students. 160 thousand signed up, from 190 different countries! He needed 2000 voluntaries to help him translate and correct the homework.
Here is the video (in flash, sorry)
When he gave the presentation, the course had completed. This course changed Sebastian's life, and he went on to found udacity.com which states:
We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we've connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world.Sebastian has got a whole company running and financed, and are now inviting students to two courses, one on search engine programming and another on robotics.
After working to understand disruption in education, it was a chock to see this. It came so fast, and is so great. I think this is the third disruptive tool I've seen the last year; first it was Kahn Academy, the second was iTunes U and Author.
How lucky we are, young and old, all around the world, that we have these possibilities to learn!
