Coursera
About Company
Coursera is a digital company offering massive open online courses , founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller of Stanford University ( California ).
As of August 16, 2012, 1,080,000 students from 196 countries had enrolled in at least one course . 1
Coursera launched shortly after Udacity , a venture by former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun , and shortly before edX , a nonprofit online education initiative by MIT and Harvard.