Coursera.org
<p>Apr 19, 2012 09:47 PM
 
founded by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller;
 
Pres Hennessy compared online education to a tsunami.
 
MOOCs  Massive Open Online Courses... attracted 350,000 students from around the world.
(Bob... YOU DO IT  on consciousness!)
 
also  see UDACITY... Seba Thrun  indep company.
 
Coursera will partner with Stanford.
 
new courses will be on Design and Analysis of Algos
Natl Lang Processing
Cryptography and
Game Theory and Probabilistic Models
 
total enrollment = 350,000  (per Mar 7 2012 Stfd Daily article)
 
Vice provost  John Mitchell is spel ast for educ tech to Pres Hennessy.
 
inverted classroom model.</p>