This article was posted on the web site “The New York Times” by John Markoff, on August 15, 2011. And it’s about a free online course about Artificial Intelligence that the Stanford University, specifically the Stanford Computer Science Department is offering. The purpose they have is to extend technology knowledge and skills to the entire world. This course will be taught by two experts from Silicon Valley: Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun.
This course has attracted until now, more than 58.000 students around the globe and has attracted interest from more than 175 countries. The online students will not be accredited by the Stanford University.
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| The teachers, from left, Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun. |
For the Artificial Courses, students will need to have some knowledge to take it but there are no restrictions to online participation. The age range is from High School to retirees.
In this article we can also know more about the works made by the instructors named before. They talk about the uncertainly that they feel with the audience attracted by this course. They also tell us about how this project originated. They exposed that their inspiration was the work of Salman Khan, a professor who provided video tutorials in 2006 to students around the world on a variety of subjects via You Tube. Also the programming of the course is explained here.
They will use a special system running to evaluate the number of participants. It’s important too, to emphasize that there has been some discussion about the fees for the instruction but it seems that the experts are “more interested in bringing Stanford to the world”. These are words of Dr. Thrun.
In my opinion, the article or news is a clear example of how people, teachers and students are using technology in the educational field.
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