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Coursera Is Now a Public Company. What Does That Mean For Higher Education?

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EdSurge talked with Coursera’s CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, today to ask him what this unicorn company, valued at more than $3.6 Here are the takeaways: Coursera Already Had Cash, But Now It Can Add … More AI? For one thing, more robot teaching-tech behind the scenes. “We billion according to PitchBook, plans to do now. There are 1.3

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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In popular culture, artificial intelligence is used to describe anything from product recommendations to self-driving cars and futuristic robotic overlords. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He

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4 Ways AI Education and Ethics Will Disrupt Society in 2019

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Meanwhile, the public was amazed at technological advances like Boston Dynamic’s Atlas robot doing parkour , while simultaneously being outraged at the thought of our data no longer being ours and Alexa listening in on all our conversations. Funding for AI literacy and public education will skyrocket.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. Unicorns such as Coursera, Udemy, Varsity Tutors and VIPKid led the way with innovative solutions.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Sphero Acquires littleBits; Coursera Makes First Acquisition

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In recent dealmaking news, the robotics company Sphero has acquired littleBits, while online education company Coursera acquired startup Rhyme Softworks. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Sphero Acquires littleBits; Coursera Makes First Acquisition appeared first on Market Brief.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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MOOCs Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Unleashing Creativity and Potential: Computer Coding for Kids

Kyle Pace

Coding toys and robots: Physical toys and robots like LEGO Mindstorms, Botley the Coding Robot, or the Fisher-Price Code-a-Pillar offer a hands-on approach to learning coding concepts. Websites like Khan Academy, Codecademy, or Coursera have beginner-friendly courses in languages like Python, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.