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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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Amidst the hype, two competing entities were formed within a few weeks of each other: One of them was Coursera, a for-profit startup backed by the biggest-name investors in Silicon Valley, who argued that they were building a billion-dollar company, a rare “unicorn,” as venture capitalists say.

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Could Coursera Become as Prestigious as Harvard? This Expert Thinks So.

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Major online-learning platforms, including Coursera, are pushing colleges to offer more online degrees these days. It doesn't matter if I learned what I learned at Coursera. Listen on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music , or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player on this page.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021

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Coursera went public , while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status. In March, Coursera went public on the NYSE, raising $519 million. million) and how much Coursera paid its university partners ($281 million). In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event.

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Are Upstart Online Providers Getting Better at Teaching Than Traditional Colleges?

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But now that companies like Coursera have grown into edtech giants— the company went public in March and is valued at more than $3 billion—he was curious to see what their offerings are like these days. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. The content and the product was really, really polished.

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How Innovations in Voice Technology Are Reshaping Education

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Sanchez leads the Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology team at Coursera, the online learning platform where students anywhere can take courses, master a career skill, get professional certificates, and earn degrees from 200 top universities and companies, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Google and IBM.

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Learning about Coursera -- a MOOC worth exploring

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Andrew Ng, Stanford University computer science professor, is the co-founder of Coursera, a for-profit company that partners with colleges and universities to provide free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Stanford Professors Launch Coursera With $16M From Kleiner Perkins and NEA. Who can take a Coursera course? Brilliant!"