Quick Hits (1.24.12)

BINGO! Don’t have a Bingo card yet for tonight’s State of the Union? The Alliance for Excellent Education has it covered.

For greener pastures. Remember Sebastian Thrun at Stanford University? He’s the professor who taught an Artificial Intelligence course online – for free (albeit no credit). Well, that ended in December (with 160,000 students enrolled around the globe) – and so did Thrun’s tenure at Stanford. He’s given it up in order to start a new, online university, called Udacity. (Reuters)

Forget iPads; these students just want computers. Almost 1,000 students across three schools use the same 24 computers on this Chicago campus. (Hechinger Report)

Listen up! They were there. Teachers talk about what they’d change about their preparation programs, from residency models to mentoring programs. (Education Week)

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