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Aspen Ideas Festival 2012

The 2012 Ideas Festival gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week this summer.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2012

The future of free online courses from big-time universities


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The co-founder of Coursera and Stanford University professor Andrew Ng, and Joanne Weiss of the US Department of Education discuss the role online courses will play in college learning and the college experience. They spoke at the 2012 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.

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  • Andrew Ng: Professor of computer science at Stanford University. Co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera.
  • Joanne Weiss: Chief of Staff, US Department of Education.

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