Coursera Hits 1 Million Students, With Udacity Close Behind – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Coursera, an upstart company working with selective universities to offer free online courses, announced this week that it had reached one million registered students. A rival company, Udacity, which also offers what have become known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC’s, says it has more than 739,000 students.

via Coursera Hits 1 Million Students, With Udacity Close Behind – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Coursera works with some of the world’s best-known universities, such as Princeton University and the University of Virginia, while Udacity works with individual professors rather than institutions.

Udacity’s founder, Sebastian Thrun, said in an e-mail interview that his company planned to remain focused on computer science and related fields. “We are not doing humanities,” he said.

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