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Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller has ridden the MOOC craze as the company’s CEO and later president. This field has been a passion of mine since 2001, when I first started working on it at Stanford.” million users in less than a year and leading some to proclaim 2012 “the year of the MOOC.” 17 blog post.
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