San Jose State suspends collaboration with online provider
San Jose State suspends its project with Udacity to offer low-cost, for-credit online courses after many students fail to pass them.
By Carla Rivera
July 18, 2013, 10:23 p.m.
San Jose State University is suspending a highly touted collaboration with online provider Udacity to offer low-cost, for-credit online courses after finding that more than half of the students failed to pass the classes, officials said Thursday.
Preliminary results from a spring pilot project found student pass rates of 20% to 44% in remedial math, college-level algebra and elementary statistics courses. In a somewhat more promising outcome, 83% of students completed the classes.
The San Jose State experiment with online education was being closely watched by other universities as they begin to step farther into the virtual classroom.
Udacity, a private Silicon Valley education group, and San Jose State announced jointly that they have agreed to pull the courses this fall to examine results in greater detail and fine-tune many aspects of the project.
https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0719-san-jose-online-20130719,0,4160941.story
It is not easy to take an online class. You must be a very disciplined student. Online interactions are not as good as face to face – whether it is with the professor or with your fellow students.