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An interactive online learning system created by 2 Stanford computer scientists has secured $16m in venture capital (风险投资) and partnerships with 5 major universities including Stanford and Princeton, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The 2 professors taught free Web-based courses through Stanford last year that reached more than 100,000 students. Now they have formed a company, Coursera, as a Web portal to distribute a broad array of free interactive courses in the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering to tens of millions of people globally.
据《纽约时报》18日报道，斯坦福大学两位计算机科学家推出的在线教育互动平台日前获得1600万美元风投，斯坦福、普林斯顿等5所名校将合作提供课程。这两名教授去年通过斯坦福向超过10万学生提供两门免费在线课程，如今他们成立了Coursera公司，以门户网站的形式向全球千万用户提供人文、社科、理工等各类免费在线课程。