网络教育的未来在校园

As successful as edX's San Jose State program was in lowering the class's failure rate, another partnership San Jose State struck with Udacity had the opposite effect.
尽管EdX课程成功降低了圣何塞州立大学的不及格率，但同样是网络教育，该大学和Udacity的合作成果却恰恰相反。

Earlier this year, the school announced it would be offering five online courses through Udacity. Then, just a few weeks ago, Udacity announced it was suspending the partnership after just one semester. The cause? More than half of the students taking the online courses failed the final exam.
今年早些时候，学校宣布通过Udacity提供五门在线课程。然而就在几星期之前，Udacity在仅仅一学期后就宣布合作项目终止。原因？使用在线课程的学生中，有超过半数的人期末考试不及格。

It looked like a crushing blow to the industry, with skeptics pointing the finger at Udacity as just one example of why MOOCs offer students a subpar education. With the entire class taking place online, and minimal instructor oversight, the students either couldn't keep up or lacked the motivation to.
这一事件看起来是对网络教育的致命一击，怀疑网络教育的人指向Udacity，说这只是MOOC为学生提供劣质教育的案例之一。在所有课堂活动都发生在网络，又没有及时指导监督的情况下，学生也丧失了动力，无法继续学习。

The flipped classroom, on the other hand, actually enhances that oversight, forcing students to participate in class.
但另一方面，翻转课堂却能保证严格的监督指导，迫使学生参与课堂活动。

"If I don't retain a student in the program, I don't make anything, and that's good from the university's perspective," Agarwal says. "What happened with Udacity isn't really possible in our program, because we could see week two the student wasn’t doing the work."
“如果我不能让学生参与到这个项目中，那我做什么都是徒劳。对于大学来说这是个好事。”阿格沃尔说道：“Udacity的问题不可能出现在我们的课程中。如果学生没有好好学习，我们从第二周就能得看出来。”

Agarwal says experimenting with business models is critical to this industry. It’s important to remember, he says, how new this space is and how very little education has changed over the last century.
阿格沃尔说尝试用商业模式运作这一产业十分关键。他说，网络教育还是个新型产物，而过去一个世纪的教育模式几乎没有改变，记住这两点非常重要。

"We have to be ambitious, otherwise education will stay the same for the next hundred years. Some experiments will turn out well and some won't," he says, "but as they say, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained.'"
他说：“我们必须要有野心，否则教育在接下来几百年仍会停滞不前。有些尝试会有好结果，但有些不会。但有人说过，‘不冒风险，就不会有所收获。’”