Coursera
Also known as coursera.org
plataforma virtual de educación
AI overview
Coursera is an American online education platform founded in 2012 by Stanford professors that partners with universities and organizations to provide courses, certifications, and degrees to students worldwide. It matters because it has made higher education and professional training more accessible by offering these programs online at scale, transforming from a free course provider into a for-profit institution offering both free and paid educational credentials.
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- Website.name
- Coursera Inc.
- Website.logo
- Coursera logo (2020).svg
- Website.collapsible
- yes
- Website.screenshot
- Coursera homepage.png
- Website.caption
- Coursera's homepage in March 2020
- Website.location
- Mountain View, California, U.S.
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Online education
- Website.company_type
- Public
- Website.num_employees
- 1,300 (2024)
- Website.registration
- Required
- Website.language
- Multilingual (40)
Article · Español
Coursera es una plataforma de educación virtual nacida en octubre de 2011 y desarrollada por académicos de la Universidad de Stanford con el fin de brindar oferta de educación masiva a la población (Massive Online Open Course), con cursos en inglés y otros idiomas como el español, francés, italiano y chino. Coursera ofrece cursos, tanto gratuitos como de pago, sobre temas variados a niveles universitarios, pero abiertos a todos los sectores de la población. Fue fundada por los profesores en ciencias de la computación Andrew Ng y Daphne Koller en octubre de 2011 con el lanzamiento de dos cursos gratuitos, Aprendizaje automático e Introducción a las bases de datos.
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