Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and
he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive
online education company that he cofounded, Coursera, hopes to
revolutionize higher education by allowing students from all over the
world to not only hear his lectures, but to do homework assignments, be
graded, receive a certificate for completing the course and use that to
get a better job or gain admission to a better school.
“I normally teach 400 students,” Ng explained, but last semester he
taught 100,000 in an online course on machine learning. “To reach that
many students before,” he said, “I would have had to teach my normal
Stanford class for 250 years.”
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