Rafael Fajardo

A First for Udacity: Transfer Credit at a U.S. University for One of Its Courses

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A Colorado university is announcing on Thursday that it will give full transfer credit to students who complete a free introductory computer-science course offered by the online-education start-up company Udacity.

The announcement, by Colorado State University’s Global Campus, is a milestone for the Stanford University spinoff.

This is the first time a university in the United States has offered academic credit for a Udacity course, although several universities in Austria and Germany already do.

» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)

A small, but important, detail is that the Colorado State University Global Campus is the online parallel of that bricks and mortar institution. I do not know the relationship between the virtual and physical at that university. Are they separate? Are they equal?

(Source: infoneer-pulse)