Udacity Changes Course?

Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course | Fast Company | Business + Innovation:

Mission Impossible | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Why MOOCs May Still Be Silicon Valley's Next Grand Challenge | Dr. Keith Devlin
abandoning his original "teach the world" educational vision and concentrating on corporate training?

Udacity Introducing Big Data Courses and Paid Enrollment
For beginner level courses the cost is $150 per month ($105 per month with the 30% early registration discount), and for Data Wrangling with MongoDB, which is an intermediate course expected to take 2 months, the cost is $200 per month ($140 per month with the 30% early registration discount).
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