Dive Summary:
- Students in joint Udacity-San Jose State online classes this summer posted better results compared with students who took the same online classes in spring.
- Udacity and the San Jose school said in July that they were pulling the fall classes to tweak some aspects after disappointing results, and those classes are still on hold.
- Udacity head Sebastian Thrun said a major factor in the better results was the makeup of the student body: In the spring, many were local low-income high school students; most this summer were from other states or countries.
From the article:
... In new results released Wednesday, 83% of summer students in elementary statistics earned a C or better compared with 50.5% of those in the spring; and 72.6% of summer college algebra students made the grade compared with 25.4% of those in the spring. The pass rates for remedial math improved somewhat, reaching nearly 30% for summer students compared with 24% for those in the spring. ...
