By Christina Larson, Bloomberg
Levin, the new chief executive of Coursera, was president of Yale University for 20 years, making him one of the Ivy League’s longest-serving presidents. Levin focused on expanding partnerships in China and the school’s international presence more broadly in his time at Yale, according to his university biography, and he laid out an optimistic vision for the future of higher education in China in a 2010 article for Foreign Affairs. Now he wants to expand Coursera’s footprint in China. The company already offers more than 800 online courses led by professors at 112 colleges and other institutions—including such top-flight schools as Yale, Columbia University, and Duke University. Today Coursera has more than 10 million total users, and as Levin recently told the China Daily, the number of Chinese users is second only to those in the U.S. He sees China as the company’s greatest opportunity for expanding its user base.
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