UAlberta, Udacity team up for online learning - UAlberta News

Education and machine learning researchers at the University of Alberta are joining forces with leading online education provider Udacity to further develop and refine methods for delivering academic courses online. The U of A and Udacity signed a memorandum of understanding today that begins a research partnership for the collaborative development of systems for delivery, measurement and assessment of online learning courses and experiences. Researchers from the university’s Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning—one of the world’s top five machine learning institutes—and from the faculties of education and science will join others across campus with expertise in online learning technologies and pedagogy to work with Udacity. http://www.news.ualberta.ca/article.aspx?id=35E0984352AA46339C25038A3622D503