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"Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features of the Coursera MOOCs, and the lessons she has learned to date about teaching and learning from these courses. The video is well worth watching, just for this."

Tony Bates critique of Coursera and Koller's take on Moocs.

Ng & Koller talk about Coursera at a meetup in California. This news article describes that and quotes Ng saying that the Coursera experience could be as big as Google

"Today, Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller is in Sydney, Australia, where she has just signed agreements with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Western Australia (UWA). These top institutions join the University of Melbourne as our second and third Australian university partners, bringing our total number of university and educational institution partners to 86. "

Coursera prevents other entities using courses as part of some other course elsewhere e.g. at UoW.

Interesting - A US academic says that Coursera should run a MOOC on how its own business model could ruin education!

Coursera - to offer on campus courses and partner with 'not top class' unis' shock.

a thought-provoking article that puts forward the thesis that MOOCs and Coursera are the wrong direction for higher education - that personalisation and customisation of learning are the direction we should be working to develop.

Article on demise of Coursera course.

Some thoughts on how Coursera might make money - and some insights into how they currently organise e.g. more than $1m per staff member in venture capital available.

Interesting way of describing a course. While you're on the Coursera website check out the range of free courses. Should we be worried?

A long post on why "Coursera is silly"

Coursera now passing student details to employers (with the students permission - opt in). Allows people to seek work through the courses they have done.

Affirmation of good learning through a Coursera MOOC

Antioch University Los Angeles becomes one of the first universities to offer credit for two undergraduate courses from Coursera. 

FOE vs EDC moocs - a learning approach comparison.

Why Coursera & Udacity are killing Open Education.

FOE Mooc reporting.

FOE Mooc analysis

First hand account of the FOE Coursera mooc collapse