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Cousera: TED Talk on Free Courses from the Best Teachers

As the market goes your way, become more humble–Benard Baruch

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/08/ted-talk-daphne-koller-on-what-were.html

Why you should listen to her:

A 3rd generation Ph.D who is passionate about education, Stanford professor Daphne Koller is excited to be making the college experience available to anyone through her startup, Coursera. With classes from 16 top colleges, Coursera is an innovative model for online learning. While top schools have been putting lectures online for years, Coursera’s platform supports the other vital aspect of the classroom: tests and assignments that reinforce learning.

At the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, computer scientist Daphne Koller studies how to model large, complicated decisions with lots of uncertainty. (Her research group is called DAGS, which stands for Daphne’s Approximate Group of Students.) In 2004, she won a MacArthur Fellowship for her work, which involves, among other things, using Bayesian networks and other techniques to explore biomedical and genetic data sets.

“Classes involve recorded lectures and quizzes in which the video pauses to let students answer questions.”

Ari Levy in Bloomberg BusinessWeek