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Coursera Inc. (/ k ər ˈ s ɛ r ə /) is an American global massive open online course provider. It was founded in 2012 [2] [3] by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. [4] Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects.
Other participants include Amazon, Google, General Motors, and Facebook. [ 53 ] In 2017, Google announced, in association with Pluralsight, 100,000 scholarships to help developers gain access to advanced learning curriculum in emerging technologies, including mobile and web development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud ...
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
In 2011, Ng founded the Google Brain project at Google, which developed large-scale artificial neural networks using Google's distributed computing infrastructure. [44] Among its notable results was a neural network trained using deep learning algorithms on 16,000 CPU cores , which learned to recognize cats after watching only YouTube videos ...
The university is described as having a strong venture culture in which students are encouraged, and often funded, to launch their own companies. [ 8 ] According to PitchBook, from 2006 to 2017, Stanford produced 1,127 company founders as alumni or current students, more than any other university in the world; and these founders created 957 ...
A course billed as "Asia's first MOOC" given by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology through Coursera starting in April 2013 registered 17,000 students. About 60% were from "rich countries" with many of the rest from middle-income countries in Asia, South Africa, Brazil or Mexico.
In an anatomy course incorporating YouTube, 98% of students watched the assigned videos and 92% stated that they were helpful in teaching anatomical concepts. [12] A 2013 study focused on clinical skills education from YouTube found that the 100 most accessible videos across a variety of topics ( venipuncture , wound care, pain assessment, CPR ...
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. [9] Thrun has stated he hopes half a million students will enroll, after an enrollment of 160,000 students in the predecessor course at Stanford, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, [10] and 90,000 students had enrolled in the initial two classes as of March 2012.