Daphne Koller on Education, Coursera, and MOOCs

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🗓️ 25 August 2014

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Daphne Koller of Coursera talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about online educational website Coursera and the future of education both online and via bricks-and-mortar. Koller, co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng, explains how Coursera partners with universities, how they try to create community and interaction, and the likely impact of widespread digital education on universities and those who want to learn. The conversation includes a discussion of why Koller left a chaired position in computer science at Stanford University to run a for-profit start-up in a crowded field.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:23.3	back to 2006.
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0:32.0	Today is July 31st, 2014, and my guest is Daphne Coler, president and co-founder of Coursera,
0:39.6	the online education platform, Daphne.
0:41.7	Welcome to Econ Talk.
0:43.1	Thank you very much.
0:44.9	So I want to start with Coursera.
0:46.4	It's a for-profit company that collaborates with nonprofit universities, tell me how it works,
0:51.6	and what its goals are.
0:53.6	So our goal is to provide free education offered by our university partners to learners
0:59.3	everywhere.
1:00.8	We partner with the university.
1:02.6	They're responsible for developing the content.
1:05.8	They put the courses up online on our platform.
1:08.4	We host and stream them to the learners worldwide.
1:11.4	We have learners in every country around the world.
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