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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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MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities

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In Oct 2011, a few Stanford professors offered three online courses which were completely free. I started Class Central at the end of Nov 2011 as a side project to keep track of free online courses, so I’ve followed the space closely right from the beginning. Eighty-nine percent of Coursera learners are over the age of 22.

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Monetization Over Massiveness: Breaking Down MOOCs by the Numbers in 2016

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The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. By registration count, Coursera is still by far the largest MOOC provider in the world with over 23 million learners. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Where Are They Now?

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That was in 2011. Coursera Coursera aggressively tweaks its monetization model, which can lead to constant changes in how its courses work. It will be difficult to cover every scenario, so let’s focus on policies that apply to most courses, which also reflects the direction Coursera wants to move into it.

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The Second Wave of MOOC Hype is Here, and it’s Online Degrees

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Earlier this year, for instance, Coursera announced six new degrees , including the first-ever MOOC-based Bachelors. I started Class Central at the end of 2011 while taking a free online course from Stanford on AI—even before people started calling these courses MOOCs—and have been following the space ever since. Quite the opposite.

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To Better Serve Adult Learners, Eliminate the Barriers Between Work and Learning

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peaked in 2011 and is currently declining. In addition, external and internal learning and development content is increasingly being curated and linked to formal educational opportunities for working professionals—via offerings such as Coursera for Business and “ learning experience platforms ” like Degreed.

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A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs

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These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case. As a result the forums are far less vibrant and informative than they were in the early days.

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