http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/...nky_bottom

University Suspends Online Classes After More Than Half the Students Fail

In January, San Jose State University made a big announcement: It had reached a deal with the startup Udacity to offer college classes for credit online, for a modest fee, not only to its own students but to anyone who wanted to take them. The move was touted as a major step in online learning’s Clay Christensen-approved march toward the ultimate disruption of higher education.

It seems, however, that there are a few more kinks to work out before we all toss out the books and the buildings for good. Inside Higher Ed reported on Thursday that San Jose State is suspending the Udacity partnership just six months after it launched. The problem: More than half the students in the first batch of online courses failed their final exams.

Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun, a machine-learning legend at Stanford and Google, told the AP that the failure rates in the five classes ranged from 56 to 76 percent. Nor was the course material exactly rocket science—the five classes were in elementary statistics, college algebra, entry-level math, introduction to programming, and introduction to psychology.

I'm curious if anyone knows if Grand Canyon has a rule where professors and students are not allowed to have stock in the school. I could see conflict of interest in both.

A professor intentionally fails or passes more students that deserve/don't deserve it in order to make the schools academics more appealing.

A student bribes someone to get a grade by threatening to sell stock - or buy up a larger percent.

(07-22-2013 07:56 PM)Soobahk40050 Wrote:  I'm curious if anyone knows if Grand Canyon has a rule where professors and students are not allowed to have stock in the school. I could see conflict of interest in both.

A professor intentionally fails or passes more students that deserve/don't deserve it in order to make the schools academics more appealing.

A student bribes someone to get a grade by threatening to sell stock - or buy up a larger percent.

If you're a student sand you have enough money to have THAT much stock, you're buying buildings at Harvard and getting "gentleman's C's" there. If you're a professor with enough money to have THAT much stock, you are retired.