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

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Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. 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 He left the company in 2014.)

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Like much of edtech, research results can be ambiguous, with some saying it’s marginally better than conventional classroom teaching , while others report impressive results. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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MOOCs Are Still Rising, at Least in Numbers

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It was 2011, and fewer than ten MOOCs existed worldwide. It has been four years since then, and according to a new report, the cumulative number of MOOCs has reached nearly 4,000. And the data show that even as the MOOC hype starts to die down , interest isn’t tapering off. After that, Canvas.net gets 7 percent.

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Beyond K-12: EdSurge’s Next Move

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We started EdSurge in 2011 by focusing on K-12 education. In 2011, our attention was riveted by the entrepreneurial activity surrounding students in grades K through 12. This past March, we began broadening our coverage to include education beyond high school. Here’s what we’re doing and how we hope you can help.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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Creating Something of Value

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Discussing this with some educators today, they had a “matching” program with a company, that matched every dollar they raised, and yes, I would take that. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. Is a site like “GoFundMe”, asking for donations, always the best choice?

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