Top schools to spread knowledge worldwide
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April 19, 2012, Thursday
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FIVE top US universities are to create free online courses for students worldwide through a new, interactive education platform called Coursera.
The two founders, both professors of computer science at Stanford University, said yesterday they had received US$16 million in financing from two Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
Coursera will offer more than three dozen college courses in the coming year through its website (coursera.org) on subjects ranging from Greek mythology to neurology, and calculus to contemporary American poetry. The classes are designed and taught by professors at Stanford, Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.
Coursera joins a raft of online projects aimed at making higher education more accessible and affordable. Many of these ventures, however, simply post entire lectures on the web, with no interactive component.
Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng say Coursera will be different because professors from top schools will teach under their university's name and will adapt their most popular courses for the web, embedding assignments and exams into video lectures and answering questions from students on online forums.
The two founders, both professors of computer science at Stanford University, said yesterday they had received US$16 million in financing from two Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
Coursera will offer more than three dozen college courses in the coming year through its website (coursera.org) on subjects ranging from Greek mythology to neurology, and calculus to contemporary American poetry. The classes are designed and taught by professors at Stanford, Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.
Coursera joins a raft of online projects aimed at making higher education more accessible and affordable. Many of these ventures, however, simply post entire lectures on the web, with no interactive component.
Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng say Coursera will be different because professors from top schools will teach under their university's name and will adapt their most popular courses for the web, embedding assignments and exams into video lectures and answering questions from students on online forums.
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