by Knowledge@Wharton
In the United States, the price of education is rising faster than health care costs. A recent analysis by The New York Times found that college tuition has shot up by 559% since 1985. At the same time, digital innovation is providing new options for students — the classroom is becoming virtual with the advent of relatively inexpensive yet powerful tablet devices and the increased availability of free education online. The leading online education source is Coursera, which offers free virtual classes and certification from top American universities, such as Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. Two computer science professors at Stanford University, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, founded Coursera, which has enrolled hundreds of thousands of students from almost every single country around the world since its launch.
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