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September 19, 2012 11:30 am GMT
For decades, the door to America's top-tier universities has been closing, and today your chances of being admitted to these prestigious institutions is slimmer than ever. This year, the acceptance rate at four of the eight Ivy League Schools hit record lows. Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera earlier this year to fling that door wide open. They created a platform that provides the framework and hosting services for massively open online courses, or MOOCs, to bring, via the Web, an elite education to the public for free. At launch, when there were only three institutions on board, it almost seemed crazy. No longer. Seventeen new universities joined the startup's platform tonight, nearly doubling the number of schools participating. That means Coursera's platform now hosts about 200 courses from 33 international and domestic schools and it now reaches over 1.3 million students around the world.
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Your Online Ivy: Coursera Now Hosts 200 Courses From 33 Schools And Reaches 1.3M Students
For decades, the door to America's top-tier universities has been closing, and today your chances of being admitted to these prestigious institutions is slimmer than ever. This year, the acceptance rate at four of the eight Ivy League Schools hit record lows. Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera earlier this year to fling that door wide open. They created a platform that provides the framework and hosting services for massively open online courses, or MOOCs, to bring, via the Web, an elite education to the public for free. At launch, when there were only three institutions on board, it almost seemed crazy. No longer. Seventeen new universities joined the startup's platform tonight, nearly doubling the number of schools participating. That means Coursera's platform now hosts about 200 courses from 33 international and domestic schools and it now reaches over 1.3 million students around the world.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/HZ4kejNbbHA/
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