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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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The Future Belongs to Online Learners — But Only If Programs Can Help Them Succeed

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Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” She’s now completing an online MBA from Western Governors University (WGU).

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Pros and Cons of Using eLearning Software in Your Classroom

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Technology allows you to teach and learn from any part of the world with Internet access and electricity. All you need is a device and software, like Google Hangouts Meet, Zoom, Join.me, GoToMeeting, or other tools that facilitate studying. Here is an excellent example of an EdTech company that produces valuable content for educators.

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What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside 'Walled Gardens'?

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Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. And it's an opportune time to rethink open courses.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. One example is Calbright , the new online community college in California.

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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

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“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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COLUMN: Changes to come should be ‘music to your ears,’ higher education innovators say

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Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. This move to online learning is here to stay. Related: Colleges and universities are outsourcing services to for-profit companies.

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