Professor Daphne Koller helped millions of people learn online for free

Thekabarnews.com—Koller was intelligent from a young age. She could solve challenging arithmetic problems even when she was a teenager. By the time she was in her twenties, she was a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Stanford University.

Koller eventually understood, nevertheless, that many people still could not afford elite education because of high costs, limited locations, and very picky admissions processes.

In 2011, Stanford started offering an online machine learning course that unexpectedly drew in more than 160,000 students from all over the world.

The huge response showed that people all throughout the world want cheap education. Koller and her colleague Andrew Ng saw this need and took the lead in starting Coursera the next year. Coursera’s goal is to make high-quality university courses available to everyone.

Today, Coursera has over 148 million users who are learning about a wide range of topics. Students from quiet villages to busy metropolises can now go to well-known colleges and universities.

Coursera’s platform has changed the way people think about who should be able to get an education. It shows that opportunity, not privilege, is what really makes people learn.