{"id":27500,"date":"2012-03-05T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=27500"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:47:27","slug":"udemys-faculty-project-nabs-50000-students-and-an-ivy-league-professor-lawler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/05\/udemys-faculty-project-nabs-50000-students-and-an-ivy-league-professor-lawler\/","title":{"rendered":"Udemy\u2019s Faculty Project nabs 50,000 students and an Ivy league professor [Lawler]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/03\/02\/udemy-faculty-project\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Udemy\u2019s Faculty Project nabs 50,000 students and an Ivy league\u00a0professor<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from gigaom.com by Ryan Lawler<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">About six weeks ago, educational video startup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udemy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Udemy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/top-us-professors-unite-with-the-faculty-project-to-offer-free-online-courses-138121843.html\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> its <a href=\"http:\/\/facultyproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty Project<\/a>, a nonprofit program for distributing streaming university curriculum online. Early results have been pretty successful, with more than 50,000 students signing up for the program. But that\u2019s not all: the Faculty Project is also bringing on ever more prestigious faculty, with its first Ivy League professor soon coming on board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In contrast to <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/video\/udemy-company-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Udemy\u2019s for-profit platform<\/a>, which enables teachers to create online courses and charges for access to them, the Faculty Project is a free offering that is designed to connect students from around the world with university faculty for high-quality courses online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Udemy\u2019s Faculty Project nabs 50,000 students and an Ivy league\u00a0professor &#8212; from gigaom.com by Ryan Lawler Excerpt: About six weeks ago, educational video startup Udemy launched its Faculty Project, a nonprofit program for distributing streaming university curriculum online. Early results have been pretty successful, with more than 50,000 students signing up for the program. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,72,71,180,239,76],"tags":[653,606,605,661,251],"class_list":["post-27500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faculty-staff","category-innovation","category-new-business-models","category-open-courseware-and-systems","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-faculty-staff","tag-innovation","tag-new-business-models-in-he"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27504,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27500\/revisions\/27504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}