Online education: a leg up for high school kids? - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Online education: a leg up for high school kids? - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

Online education: a leg up for high school kids?

By Katy Murphy
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 at 3:36 pm in Uncategorized.

photo by Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group

I’ve been at San Jose State today, learning about an online education experiment that could affect high school and college students – and would-be college students – alike.

The latest idea is to offer three entry-level or remedial courses online, for CSU credit, at $150 each. San Jose State professors created the course using the platform of a Palo Alto-based online education startup, Udacity.

The pilot will start with just 300 students – 150 from San Jose State and another 150 from community colleges and the two high schools Gov. Jerry Brown started when he was the mayor of Oakland — Oakland Military Institute and Oakland School for the Arts.

If the experiment works – and, as Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun acknowledges, it