&hellip;the lecture was the most effective way to convey information. We had the industrialization, we had the invention of celluloid, of digital media, and, miraculously, professors today teach exactly the same way they taught a thousand years ago. — Sebastian Thrun on <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tenured-professor-departs-stanford-u-hoping-to-teach-500000-students-at-online-start-up/35135" target="_blank">why</a> he&rsquo;s leaving Stanford to found <a href="http://udacity.com" target="_blank">Udacity.com</a>