Event2012
Founding of Coursera
Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera as a platform for universities to offer open online courses.
- Year
- 2012
... founding of Coursera. 2012: Power of Social Sharing.
Social media became the go-to place for sharing in 2012.
The seeds of massive open online courses (MOOCs) go back a few years before the founding of Coursera in 2012.
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