2013年10月17日星期四

Coursera 免費網上教學

Coursera 全球1 7頂尖大學
提供免費網上教學
https://www.coursera.org/#

全球17所頂尖大學，包括美國布朗大學、加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞大學（UBC）、倫敦大學和香港科技大學等，將與教學網站Coursera合作，透過該網站的平台提供免費網上課程，進一步把專上教育普及化。

其中七所大學來自美國，包括布朗大學、哥倫比亞大學、艾默理大學、范德堡大學、衞斯連大學、伯克利音樂學院和西奈山醫學院等七間私立院校，以及俄亥俄州立大學、佛羅里達大學、匹茲堡大學、馬里蘭大學及加州大學爾灣分校等五所公立大學。

參與這項計畫的外地大學，則有耶路撒冷希伯來大學、加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞大學、倫敦大學、墨爾本大學及香港科技大學。

Coursera是一個免費網上教育網站，由美國史丹福大學兩位教授創辦，自今年4月開放以來，全球註冊學生已多達一百三十萬人。上述17所大學加盟後，透過Coursera提供課程的大學將增至33間機構，共提供二百項課程。

Coursera (/kɔrsˈɛrə/) is an education technology company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University, located in Mountain View, California. In April 2012, Coursera announced that they had received $16 million of Series A venture capital from L. John Doerr at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Scott Sandell of New Enterprise Associates Coursera says it is "committed to making the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it". While Coursera is a for-profit company, they are not currently generating revenue, but John Doerr has suggested that people will pay for "valuable, premium services".

As of August 16, 2012 more than 1,080,000 students from 196 countries have enrolled in at least one course.

Coursera was launched shortly after Udacity, a for-profit online education venture by former Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun, and shortly before edX, a not-for-profit online education initiative by MIT and Harvard.

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