Sebastian Thrun, a founder of the online
learning company Udacity, enthuses about the transformative potential of his courses, but the widely reported failure of those courses to realize their supposed potential does not come up.
After launching the Open Education Alliance with some of the biggest tech
companies in Silicon Valley,
Udacity has forged a partnership with Cloudera to bring comprehensive Data Science curriculum to a massively open online course (MOOC) format in a program called Cloudera University — allowing anyone to
learn the intricacies of Hadoop and other Data Science methods.