MOOC's go mainstream! Check out the New York Times article on how they are changing the game for Education. This is an awesome trend that could take education from high touch and high cost to low touch and low cost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/education/moocs-large-courses-open-to-all-topple-campus-walls.html?pagewanted=all
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But this course, Building a Search Engine, is taught by two prominent computer scientists, Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford research professor and Google fellow, and David Evans, a professor on leave from the University of Virginia. The big names have been a big draw. Since Udacity, the for-profit startup running the course, opened registration on Jan.
Adam SwashThis is blog is pretty open learning on #start-ups #entrpreneurs and #innovation http://steveblank.com/ - great stories from Silicon Valley
