George Siemens reacts to the news of Udacity’s focus on vocational skills and charging for classes: “Make no mistake – this is a failure of Udacity and Sebastian Thrun. This is not a failure of open education, learning at scale, online learning, or MOOCs. Thrun tied his fate too early to VC funding. As a result, Udacity is now driven by revenue pursuits, not innovation. He promised us a bright future of open learning. He delivered to us something along the lines of a 1990′s corporate e-learning program.”
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2013/11/15/the-failure-of-udacity/