網上免費史丹福課程 全球16萬人報讀
Free course : Coursera Stanford unversity
www.coursera.org
Stanford unversity professor Daphne Koller introudced us to Coursera.org, an effort to bring rigorous college courses online to anyone who wants them. At the time, Coursera offered classes from Princeton Unversity, Michigan Unversity, Stanford universtiy and the university of Pennylvania. Howver, Coursera announced partnerships with seven more top colleges in the USA
At the same time, Caltech and the University of Pennsylvania have extended a combined $3.7 million investment in the site. And three international schools — the University of Edinburgh, the University of Toronto and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne — have also signed agreements with Coursers.
盛頓13日訊)經濟不景氣,養兒育女甚艱難,教育所費不菲。谷歌(Google)研究實驗室主管特龍,去年試驗推出美國史丹福大學網上免費課程,一年間共有16萬人報讀,約2萬3000人考試及格。
去年,他將人工智能課放上網,結果這免費課程影響無遠弗屆,16萬學生遍及全球190個國家,包括戰區美軍。成績最好的410位學生,全部並非來自史丹福。
哈佛大學和麻省理工學院最近耗資6000萬美元(1億8420萬令吉),為網上教學公司Coursera製作免費網上課程,很多課程都由著名學者教授。史丹福大學、密歇根大學等院校都是Coursera的合作夥伴。
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