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Daphne Koller: What We’re Learning From Online Education Daphne Koller is the ‘birth mother’ of Coursera, and along with Stanford colleague Andrew Ng are the two behind the rise of MOOC’s and disruptive elearning in higher education. This is a FANTASTIC video which provides insight into the impetus for Coursera and an inside view of…
Is Coursera a High School Offering? This is a quick introduction to a Google Poll I just sent out on Twitter. In a couple days, I’m going to be meeting with a public school administrator who is inquiring about the feasibility of promoting Coursera courses to high school students. I’d like to use the experience…
Future of Higher Education Becomes Unclear As Free Online Courses Multiply A quick interview by the New York Times with Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng of Stanford–makers of the COURSERA platform–are adding 12 universities to the online education venture they founded. Source How could free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, benefit or be detrimental to…
Minnesota and Coursera An article from Ars Technica today seems to paint a different picture from the early and emotional headlines regarding the state of Minnesota’s reported “ban” of Coursera’s free online courses. The Chronicle of Higher Education reporter Katherine Mangan seemed to start the furor with the headline Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old…
Dennis Carter of eCampusNews writes today about the University of Virginia’s recent partnership with Coursera, in his article titled: Experts: UVa.’s Coursera partnership far from an embrace of online learning. For many, the growth of Coursera is exciting–especially as it adds more member institutions. However, there’s another side to this growth that his article focuses…