What if all learning happened online?
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4.8 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Coursera is one of the largest companies offering “MOOCs” — that is, massive open online courses. Launched in 2012 by two Stanford professors, Coursera partnered with universities to offer college courses for free. In the years since, Coursera has grown to offer certificates and even full college degrees for a fraction of the cost of on-campus degrees offered by its partner universities. It has also expanded into offering employee training for businesses. Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda says he thinks online learning could just be the future of higher education.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Kai with a new episode of the Corner Office podcast for you. |
| 0:06.2 | It's sort of a back-to-school episode, if you will. |
| 0:09.0 | So, a vocabulary word to start us off. |
| 0:11.6 | MOOC, M-O-O-C. |
| 0:13.7 | That's Massive Open Online Course, Educational courses offered via the web for unlimited participation, |
| 0:20.7 | which is the business that Jeff |
| 0:22.4 | Maggiunkalda is in. He runs a company called Coursera. Jeff, welcome to the program. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you. Great to be here, Kai. My guess would be that most people probably heard of Coursera |
| 0:34.3 | back when it started in, you know, 2012, 2013, whatever, and what it was supposed to be back then. |
| 0:41.5 | What is it today as your run in the company? |
| 0:45.5 | Well, it is pretty much what it started as, which is a company that's dedicated to trying to help educate the world. |
| 0:52.9 | It was started by a couple of Stanford professors. |
| 0:56.1 | And seven years ago, it was clear that education would be a good thing. |
| 1:00.2 | I think over the last seven years, it's become clear that education is far more important |
| 1:05.5 | than even people then thought, given how fast the world has been changing. |
| 1:10.3 | How are you doing that and making money, though, Jeff? That's the question. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, well, some people do wonder, and here's what it turns out. It turns out that we offer |
| 1:21.0 | over 3,600 courses from some of the top universities and businesses in the world. |
| 1:26.3 | These courses are available at coursera.org, and you could take any of the courses for |
| 1:31.0 | free. |
| 1:31.6 | You can watch the videos. |
| 1:33.3 | But if you want to get a certificate that says that you completed the course and learn the |
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