Initial findings suggest that students in Udacity courses performed poorly compared with students in traditional classes. Fewer than half of the Udacity students were enrolled in San Jose State; many were high school students from low-income communities. A large group were enrolled in the Oakland Military Institute, a college prep academy. Many of them didn’t have access to a computer — a fact that course mentors didn’t learn about until three weeks into the semester, Junn said. She acknowledged that educators did a poor job of explaining upfront what students should expect.

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by Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.

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