How Coursera, A Free Online Education Service, Will School Us All. Illustration by Yuko Shimizu Christos Porios, 16, lives in Alexandroupolis, a small Greek city on the Aegean Sea about 20 miles from Greece's eastern border with Turkey.
"My mother's a teacher and my father's a mechanic," he explains, adding that neither is particularly knowledgeable about computers--especially compared with him. For years, he's had free rein over the family PC, and he's taken advantage of the time to teach himself programming. Mainly, he uses sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, and the Khan Academy--a portal with thousands of short, free educational videos. Coursera Throws a 'Massive Open Cookout' - Technology. By Jeffrey R.
Young Menlo Park, Calif. Call it a "massive open cookout. " Coursera, a company that is working with more than a dozen elite universities to help them run MOOC's, or massive open online courses, held its first official "meetup" here on Saturday for students and professors to connect in person over burgers, chips, and soda.
It was a chance for even the company itself to learn more about what motivates students to take its courses, which bear no official academic credit. Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education. Rapidlearning_1104.pdf. Pdf. Epal2009-decamps-depover-delievre.