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Online learning: Campus 2.0

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Massive open online courses are transforming higher education — and providing fodder for scientific research.

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  • 20 March 2013

    This article wrongly said that Andrew Ng took Daphne Koller’s machine-learning course public — it was his own course. Both this course and a database course each attracted 100,000 students not 60,000 as originally stated. The text has been corrected to reflect this.

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