By TAMAR LEWIN, New York Times
In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launching than either Facebook or Twitter. This is the second article in a series that will examine free online college-level classes and how they are transforming higher education. “We think this model will spread,” said Daphne Koller, a computer professor at Stanford and a co-founder of Coursera. The co-founders, computer science professors at Stanford University, watched with amazement as enrollment passed two million last month, with 70,000 new students a week signing up for over 200 courses, including Human-Computer Interaction, Songwriting and Gamification, taught by faculty members at the company’s partners, 33 elite universities.
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