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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 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. Since the course first launched in 2012, many students have finished ModPo multiple times.

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Dr. Chuck on Inclusive Programming, Online Instructor Involvement and Coursera’s Paywall

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Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. I’m making [the class] funny and making it engaging and teaching [students], but I don’t get to meet these people.” His first class was on internet history, technology and security.

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When universities slap their names on for-profit coding boot camps

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Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. In order to complete her homework assignments, she spent hours each night re-teaching herself the material, with help from Coursera and YouTube tutorials.

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Yale Announces ‘Blended’ Online Master’s Degree

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Students would meet in virtual classrooms where they would discuss course material using videoconferencing technology. In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. The online program, to be offered by the Yale School of Medicine, would aim to replicate its residential program for training physicians’ assistants.

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Online Learning Platform, NovoEd Acquired by Boston Private Equity Firm

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NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. In those days the platform was called Venture Lab, and 78,000 students from 150 countries signed up for its first course, which was on technology entrepreneurship.

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George Siemens and David Wiley Join Forces for a MOOC About Open Education

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Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. Coursera and edX are now approaching 20 million students on their platforms. Siemens: The numbers game was an early activity in MOOCs that people used for ego inflation.

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