Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education 

words cannot express my gratitude and appreciation !! Coursera could be a life changing experience for a lot of student around the world !! YOU ARE THE BEST :D

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

Coursera really helped me when I was learning web development. I have since switched careers.

God! This video gave me goosebumps! I was brought up in a society where education is not only a right, but a must. The word 'education' literally means 'to bring out', meaning to give rise to our potential. However, being forced to learn will only oppress us instead of 'igniting' us, which is a shame. I'm honestly astounded by Daphne's dedication and determination!

There's an amazing point here about Analytics. The data that we can collect through online courses can be so, so useful from an instructional point of view and be crucial tot he course, not just for students (to whom we can give precise feedback), but also for the instructors who can see where the the learner is getting confused and thus revisit the course and make necessary adjustments.

Daphne Koller's mission is an inspiring one. Every time we see online videos like this, we realize how far we've come as providers of online education. An eye opening video - many of our students have been influenced by it to consider enrolling in educational programs with us at Online Courses Australia.

7 years later there are thousands of courses. Thank you.

Moocs are changing the way education is delivered . truly democratises it and makes it accessible globally.

A better educated world population might prevent another devastating war.

I am taking my first Coursera course and am getting much more out of one course than another masters program would give me, exactly what I was looking for in my continual professional development... with the added bonus of creating a global network of highly skilled professionals. Thank you Daphne and Andrew, Coursera, and The University of Edinburgh.

Okay okay stop. She's not right. I'm an active Coursera user and every time on a course there is peer grading, the forums are instantly chaotic with people complaining about it. I for once have had the experience of having people grade me a very low grade because they didn't agree with me opinion. They didn't even justify it. They said "I don't agree". Bang. Or on the 4th week of a course a peer who barely talked english got to rate my work of over 1000 words below average and then gave a incomprehensible answer. These kind of stories are very known and repeated in almost ever coursera course. Granted, it is a good way to grade, especially with some improvements (like dropping the lower score given) but it's far for being perfect or as successful as she makes it seem.

College drop out here....yet a life long learner. I've been using coursera for a year now and in the beginning I just went crazy on enrolling to a bunch of classes that I've never completed. Just a few days ago I completed my class on Business innovations from the University of Maryland taught by Dr. Green. I'm loving the fact that I can learn about the stuff Im interested in. Not only that but I've learned to really discipline myself in doing my assignments/tests without being told or having the fear of failing a class. I believe her predictions are right and that this type of education is revolutionary. Anyone that has something negative to say about it, all I can say is that it takes time to improve something that will eventually change the world, the experiences (wether negative or positive) that we have now as MOOC students are a part of the steps to create an improved MOOC system.

Free education is available now all around the world! I appreciate the opportunity of studying in university, and i hope i can be a life-long learner by using the learning courses and materials online to acquire more knowledge and skills for myself, my family and my community. i believe i would have opportunity in the future to help others all around the world.

Online education is inside our lives more or less 1 year.İf you really focus you get nice results and you learn lots of things rather than face to face education.Because you don't spend time going school,going back home or activity with friends etc.But unfortunately we can't socialise,we stucked our homes:((.I hope humanity can get over this damn illness as soon as possible.

Dr Koller... Thanks a million for creating Coursera! You have no idea how much it has changed my life!

At 10:50 she states that being able to interact with the material, and be told when you are right and wrong is absolutely essential. I cannot agree more. I had MANY math textbooks that had the wrong answers in the back of the book. And when you're trying to study at home and the book is wrong, what do you do? I'm very thankful to Coursera and other online educators. You're awesome!!!

blown away by this... this is absolutely amazing. this woman deserves a nobel prize or something for pioneering something that i hope will be a trend going forward. google should take notice and throw all their weight and resources behind an idea like this.

Thank you mam. Because of courses on Coursera I have the opportunity to use internet for learning . I have completed 13 courses . Thank you Coursera. A BIG THANKS TO COURSERA.

I really like Coursera. However, this video is a bit misleading. Coursera is a COMPANY and this TED Talk doesn't really make that clear. It's backed by Venture capitalists... not philanthropists. In a Forbes article when Daphne was asked if they would need to go public she said “We have outside investors, and they expect a return.” Maybe being backed by VC's is a better strategy and the funding will benefit students. I don't know. Either way, I thought it was an important point to note because the video doesn't mention that. Not saying their approach is wrong, just wanted to fill in that information gap.

Amazing! specially the second half of the speech.

I love you Daphne! Coursera changed my life dramatically. Thank you so much for giving us Coursera!

it is a privilege for me to learn from Professors of Standford and Michigan, and get the perfect personalized guidance. Really thankful to Andrew Ng and you ma'am for creating this wonderful stage MOOC

I felt exactly the same: goosebumps! I love Coursera so much, I hated my first education and I left it thinking that I was stupid... They wanted us to repeat the notes by the rote... It turned out that I love studying: not repeating, but really learning new things! Coursera gave me new dreams. My dream is to teach people one day. I would like to send this video to all my university professors in Bulgaria as a message what the idea of teaching is.

The brace of possibilities here is so huge that it practically brings tears to my eyes. There's no way I can express how much this would have benefited me in my youth. How wonderful to think there's a chance of the future being illuminated for the many who have no access now.

The chart gives the employment status of college grads under 25. It comes off condescending, but it makes sense (both for top colleges and universities). The current system focuses on pieces of paper rather than the knowledge and skills they are supposed to represent, though that's changing. She spent 2 sentences on that and 18 minutes on revolutionizing the current lecture format into a WORKING system that allows any individuals (with time and internet access) to get a quality education.

Daphne Koller es una profesora israelo-americana del Departamento de Informática de la Universidad de Stanford, ganadora de una beca MacArthur. Es también una de las fundadoras de Coursera, una plataforma de educación en línea. ​

Koller was describing how this online system had peer support environments where other students in the same class offers support openly, which all seems great; but I hope it doesn't follow the common, open forum path where you have some people who stick around and 'troll' others who ask questions that, to one who has already taken the class, seems obvious and simple but are the usual initial hurdles that are crossed by newcomers. For the most part, this sounds really awesome.

hats off for Daphne koller n other member of coursera ,recently i have signed up this site for learning python programming language.well, it has really save my valuable time n didn't need to google again n again for information.

This is amazing... People like them are really doing something to make the world better!

I'm currently in the final stages of two six-week courses through coursera. I went to very well-regarded universities for my traditional education and I hold a BA, JD and MBA. I have to say that these coursera courses rate with the best educational experiences I have ever had. The professors are outstanding, the materials top-notch, and the interaction with other students has been really great. This lady is a genius. She deserves a Nobel prize for creating this & making it work so well.

I found the coursera site 2 months ago. I think its the best idea ever. I didn't have the chance to go to varsity, but these course got me a whole lot further.

This is amazing. Never even heard of this. Definitely going to use it.

what i would like to say is coursera is place where like minded join each other .Which make learning interesting and which brings miracle solution to the problem

Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education

This talk ignited my heart.

Hats off for Prof. Daphne Koller, Prof. Andrew Ng, and other professors who engaged in MOOCs...truly a noble work that they have done...

she wasn't comparing, she was just giving examples of talented people of two different sectors.

God bless innovative, warm hearted human beings such asDaphne Koller and the other founders of Coursera. They are the leaders our our planet, who change the face on Earth for better and not worse !

I have taken 2 courses on Coursera. Both are very high quality and great learning for me. The opportunities Coursera brings to the world is tremendous! A big thank you to the Coursera team to "make this happen".

Many of the resources available in today's university library are available on line, particularly journal publications.

Too bad they became a public Corporation who legally has to maximize profits, now it's basically the same as any other university.

I'm preparing education start up just like coursera, mooc but with little different perspective. Her talk gave me inspiration.

Thank You Daphne Koller. I am infatuated with your scope and vision. I just enrolled in Music Theory from Coursera, sponsored by the University of Edinburgh.

i really like the idea that education should be free and everyone has the same opportunity to get education and excel in whatever fields he/she is good at

I've had to transcribe this from the top, pick out the paper and conduct further research in order to embed it in my learning and consciousness. Worth sharing widely. Inspirational. A convincing portrayal of where education is going and how it will get there.

Informative and relevant. Andrew Ng most recent online talk was enlightening and illuminated existing opportunities.

Also it's that "fundamental instability", that constant shiver, which gives hierarchical society it's flexibility and certain paradoxical higher stability.

I recall but a few highly educated customers who respected my knowledge and experience. Talent is a much different concept than credentials. First I went to college(Big Ten) then learned a demanded skill. Thought my merit would be appreciated by the well-educated-- but in many cases they envied my independence and creative talents. "Knowledge is empowerment; money is power" ~~cc

Coursera has revolutionized education bringing top classes from best universities and teachers to people all over the world.

It's not even been an year since this video was posted and coursera has nearly 400 courses from 80 different universities. That is truly remarkable.

Love Coursera! I'm housebound & unable to sit in a class. I loved my classes at our local CC, the mean age was 33 & it was wonderful. Personally, I detest multiple choice tests; give me written tests where I can explain in depth & connect with like- minded others.

Free Education for all ..Thanks Coursera

She hits a solid point with the peer grading topic. I've turned to forums filled with fanboys and fangirls when i needed to figure out how something works or how to clearly explain a thought i had. Whenever someone asks me a question to which i have no answer i always tell them, lets see what the forums have to say.

Me parece admirable la idea de tener una educación apta para todos y la manera de llegar a las personas que no puedan pagar o de alguna manera entrar a una universidad, y los métodos que utilizan para interactuar con los estudiantes de la manera virtual ayuda mucho a aclarar dudad que uno puede tener.

I am from brazil and learning english and being able to watch online courses really made the difference. I would never be able to get all the knowledge that i have now,using the current educational system on brazil.

Stanford class rooms have 400 students for machine learning. Coursera provides a similar educational experience to 100,000 folks. Result is that the value of the educational experience drops to almost nothing, and the supply of entry level trained folks overwhelms the industrial need. So industry hires the 400 students from Stanford, then to fill the 400 more openings they have, the ask for x years of experience, and complains about the lack of experienced engineers in machine learning and the need to bring the top folks from all around the world to work the jobs here. If the role of universities were to provide education, then competition would have prevented the huge inflation in the cost of a university education in recent years. But really, the function is to filter out some folks from the best jobs. Since competition is greater, the value of getting through the filter is high. I would think that at some point, some company will stop hiring university educated, will go heavy into broadly hiring, providing training, and firing low performers. But the name of that company is not going to be Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Facebook.

What a brilliant woman. I agree with every single thing she said. It must have been so amazing for her to build something like Coursera that really starts us on the path to giving everyone the possibility to have lifelong learning. I'm also a huge fan of her co-founder Andrew Ng. Another amazing mind.

I think COURSERA is gonna become my new favorite website, along with TED. Thanks, TED! Thanks, Daphne Koller! Definitely signing up in a minute; that was GENIUS!

Kudos to coursera for making education possible for all who want it.

She introduced her talk as one of the problems being graduates not being able to find jobs in their field of study. Whether education is primarily about getting a job or not she said getting a job was a large problem. There are many reasons for education besides anything economically useful but her talk was not about those reasons. Degrees used to be proof you were qualified, now whether it's true or not it isn't enough. The official unemployment rate is over 8% in the USA, it's a big problem.

I posted the rosters of 80 courses where every student, 800 in all, received all "A"s. It was published on the front page of the 4 major newspapers in that state. All 800 students withdrew from the college because they were embarrassed at what the college had done. The local Carpenter's Union had made an agreement with the college under the table. The college told the leaders of the Union that if they would register all 800 apprentices, they would guarantee them A's.

What we really need are courses on discipline. There's lot of information and education all over the internet yet people still spend more time with games and social networking than actual learning, then complain when they can't pay their bills and have to work at a job they despise. We have a real problem of making ourselves do things we really need to do for our long term betterment. We all need help in this area. Basically, most of us quit way too soon and because of this, we don't give ourselves a chance to get really good at something. It takes a while for most of us to find things we're good at. If we don't learn about many things the chance of finding our talents is rather remote. Wealthy parents have the ability to expose their children to a much wider variety of areas than poorer parents. Online education can bridge this gap. Online education is really the hope for the future. But so far its been a dismal failure as people would rather play and be entertained than learn and improve. Maybe we need courses for snowflakes. And we're all snowflakes part of the day.

I can really relate to her anecdote about students taking notes without understanding what the teacher says... It's what happens to me everytime :))

The main issue I can see with this move to online learning is lack of infrastructure in certain areas. Internet access is quite expensive in South Africa as compared to Australia, with it being cheaper still in the USA. Bandwidth and speeds required to load the audio and audiovisual content can cost quite a bit in some places, while the internet is inaccessible in others.

it is important to have all people access in the education

I really like the ideas behind this video. It's very similar to what I have said in the passed based on my life experience. :-) I think universities and social learning is also very important too though. And I do think it's good for people to go in to a class so a teacher can be sure it is them doing there own work and not just downloading content from different sources and miss matching to pass. That is the only flaw I see so far. But for learning in general this is brilliant. :-)

I am sobbing. This is the world I want to help building to not only our children, but ALL children.

This information is invaluable to me as I am in the beginning stages of designing an online skills developement site for improving the functional family dynamic for Christian focused families. Thank you for your insights. I am blessed by what I am learning through TED talks.

mam..you are awesome..And thanks to you and Andrew Sir that we can learn from the best teachers from all over the world..:)

Thanks - this inspired me to continue to add technology to our sailing eLearning program. Currently we've reached 90 different countries with tens of thousands of students. We have a real passion based product - so the desire is there - albeit many times people's work gets in the way of recreation. Still we are causing a huge growth because of our eLearning approach in a semi stagnated industry. We're capturing people in their arm chair at home dreaming about sailing to having them take action

that's a great program. i appreciate all of them who are behind "coursera". i gone through the site. it is really useful for common people, who can't afford to learn such courses........... Thank you.............

I'm a Finance major at one of the most prestigious universities in the Middle East, but even that does deter me from seeking supplementary material online. I've already signed up for Stats! :)

This is such a fantastic idea. Sharing top quality learning opportunities around the world for free is just so refreshingly giving in these days of personal greed. I've been studying with them and I'm blown away by the forums aspect of the course. Here you get a dedicated forum for your course where you can discuss course topics and interesting questions raised by students all round the world bringing such a fascinating and refreshingly different take on what you are learning. Thanks Coursera :)

Coursera is amazing. You can use the skills you gain to prove your worth. Whether it's challenging a university course to gain entrance for little or no.cost, or building a personal portfolio for job interviews. There are ways to make it work for you. It's been a life changer for me.

We promote a new way of studying that makes learning more efficient. All of this new stuff online is super interesting.

I just signed up for a bunch of courses over the next 6 months. While I will need to catch up on 2 weeks of work for one, another started yesterday. That leaves me quite a bit to do in the next few weeks, but it gives me something worthy to do when I'm not exercising, reading or writing.

The Forums for online learning provide another important educational opportunity that doesn't get mentioned in this video and that is that the chance to TEACH something that you have just learned is one of the greatest roads toward mastery.

I have just started learning form coursera. It feels really good to be the part of this innovative online education.

not for the statement of accomplishment but in some cases, when they do want to actually earn tracked signature then yes, but very little for all of the great work they are doing and the good intentions.

this is a huge step forward in the world development. the most wonderful thing that i came across in a very long time.

I cannot afford to work and go to school at the same time! coursera is helping me do that!

Online education provides a path to education. There are a lot of free courses out there. Getting it from top universities is a bonus and something to add to the resume. Notre Dame has online courses and certificate programs. Go to the FAQ page to learn more. www.notredameonline.com/support/faq/

well, you could start off with their humanity courses, and then later as you grasp more knowledge from your HS classes and your own time "self tutoring/study" move to the math offered at this website. But let me tell you, there is no better place to study than at the library (without cell phone nor laptop) , all you do is sit, read, take note self quiz/question, take small breaks, come back keep on going. It's almost like training for marathons "consistency".

it seems TED talks are the RU-vid Algorithm's preferred method of mocking us in 2020

Excellent! I can't wait to see what all they have to offer, I have been wanting to go back to school however, I can't afford it so hopefully this is the answer.

Added to favorites. Much of what she's arguing is similar to arguments i've been using for some years now, but she has put a lot of work into making a coherent and great talk out of it, and has actually also begun putting it into action. I wish this type of learning was avalible when i started school. During grades 1-10 i was mostly bored, and did almost no homework, but was still in the top 3-5 of all my classes. I was bored during lectures as everything was spoon-fed to the slower students.

I am not new to online courses but a big thanks for the lecture explaining the details of Coursera usage. I'd suggest that the speaker now focus on breathing exercises to help her deliver her speeches more smoothly.

i agree watching online videos is very concise and easy to understand but unfortunately school is still required

this definitely needs more attention, it is probably one of the best ideas on this channel

I taught college n the U.S. for 7 years. We were told by the Dean of Academic Affairs that if we didn't pass all of the black students, our adjunct faculty contracts would not b renewed. I told her that many of my students would come to class, sign the attendance roster, turn around n return 2 the cafeteria 2 watch Oprah or Jerry Springer. Those students missed 90 % of the questions on the final exam. In addition, most of them scored below 300 on the SAT.

Dear Daphne. I found your opening comments about South Africa a powerfully complex example to motivate your argument for free online education. I have just visited a town in the Northern part of South Africa where children have to hitchhike 40 km to high school if they want to go. Most don't. There is no school bus and no money to get one. This is in the Ubuntu municipality, named after Mandela's popular phrase describing the people's benevolence towards each other. Ubuntu municipality is bankrupt and one of the most corrupt municipalities in South Africa. There is no money for a bus or a driver and so there will probably never be a school bus and only a small handful of determined kids will get to high school. Would online learning change their lives? Sure if their public schooling taught them basic computer skills and if there was access to computers and data. I recently finished teaching a digital skills workshop with students from a public school, aged 12-15 and most did not know how to google or use a printer. For online access, South Africa has some of the highest prices for data in the world. So back to your use of the powerfully emotive example of South Africa. Twenty-four years ago the ANC became the government of South Africa. The ANC now run this country and invest, or don't invest in education. It is no longer making sense to use Apartheid as the only reason for what doesn't work. The problem now lies in massive corruption and students and young learners in small towns in South Africa are losing. It will be awhile before online education can benefit them.

Highly inspiring presentation that talks to very critical human rights issues of universal access and lifelong learning. With such initiatives the world would really be a better place to live. I will certainly visit the coursera site.

Amazing woman! Amazing website! This will get us to the future. In a world that is constantly evolving you should never stop learning.

A huge thanks to good people of Coursera, discovering that page was a life changer

This is really cool, best way to utilize the power of web.

Thanks, thanks, thanks. Just thanks to teachers with the transforming ideas of reaching to the world with free education. You are changing the world and I see it. Thanks again.

What an incredibly interesting, inspiring and motivating video on the revolution of education. Watching this brings so much hope for so many people around the world. Thank you!

This is the type of thinking is what will create real progress in the world. All the arguing over public funding and the talk of a "right to education" does nothing to actually improve learning. This does. If education matters so much to people, then it should not be left to the failed systems of the establishment.

El contexto de la educación en SUDAFRICA, es muy duro, las muertes que hubieron a raíz de la desigualad por adquirir una educación de calidad es muy dura, me agrada su análisis critico que brinda la PONENTE, excelente experiencia.

I've got no problem with the talk. I've got a problem with the section at 2.08 her sentence "This of course is not true for the graduates from the top institutions". It is a blanket statement saying "If you go to the top US institutions you will get job which uses all your learned skills regardless of your marks". However, she should have said something similar to "there is a high correlation between graduating from a top US institution and gaining jobs which require your education level".