Coursera Aims To Make America?s Higher Ed System Interactive And Public, Secures $22 Million

The dream of two Stanford professors of making America's higher education system interactive and universally accessible just got one step closer, with an extra $3.7 million in funding ($22mm total) and 13 new university partners, including Caltech and Duke. "I think the reason for the huge enrollments is that these are real courses," says Co-founder Andrew Ng, who met up with TechCrunch at the Annual Aspen Ideas Festival*. With an expanded university roster, a swelling piggy bank, and 1.5 million users, Coursera has become a major player the recent surge of universities and for-profit education organizations looking to dominate the web.

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