Which online education platform was cofounded by the scientist who started the SEE initiative at Stanford University ?
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Stanford Engineering Everywhere Stanford Engineering Everywhere, or SEE is an initiative started by Andrew Ng at Stanford University to offer a number of Stanford courses free online. SEE's initial set of courses was funded by Sequoia Capital, and offered instructional videos, reading lists and assignments. The portal was designed to assist both the students and teachers across the world. This is similar to initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare, where some of the courses are available for viewing for the online students community at no charge.
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Andrew Ng Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (; born 1976) is a Chinese American computer scientist. He is the former chief scientist at Baidu, where he led the company's Artificial Intelligence Group. He is an adjunct professor (formerly associate professor) at Stanford University. Ng is also the co-founder and chairman of Coursera, an online education platform.
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Stephen J. Blackwood Stephen James Blackwood is an American scholar, academic administrator, and social entrepreneur born in 1975. He is the founding
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Peter L. Corsell Peter L. Corsell (born December 5, 1977) is an American entrepreneur, businessman and venture capitalist who founded GridPoint in 2003 and the social media company Hubub.
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Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn (born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and a Consulting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.
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Christopher deCharms Christopher deCharms is a serial entrepreneur, neuroscientist, social entrepreneur, author, inventor, and founder and CEO of "Omneuron", a life sciences company focusing on new technologies for measuring and changing brain function based on pioneering imaging methods that allow people to watch the activation of their own brains 'live' using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This allows people to learn to change the patterns of their own mind and mental functioning through changing their brain activation patterns. This work, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is in late-stage clinical trials for novel treatments of chronic pain, depression, and anxiety.
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Jennifer Aaker Jennifer Aaker (born 1967, California) is an American social psychologist, author and General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Best known for her research on time, money and happiness, Aaker also focuses on the transmission of ideas through social networks, the power of story in decision making, and how to build global brands across cultures. She is the recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology and the Stanford Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Geoffrey Barrows Geoffrey Barrows is an American inventor and the founder of Centeye, a company that specializes in the development of insect vision for robotics. He holds a BS in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. In 2003 he was recognized as a "young innovator" by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR100 list.
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Daniel Berdichevsky Daniel Berdichevsky, also known as "DemiDec Dan" and "the Alpaca-in-Chief", is a noted figure in international education, the application of online social networks, and in the design of persuasive technologies. Berdichevsky is also the founder of DemiDec, a corporation that provides curriculum for the United States Academic Decathlon, and of the World Scholar's Cup.
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Fletcher Watson Fletcher G. Watson (c. 1912 – 7 May 1997) was an American professor of science education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1946–77), where he served as the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education (1966–77). Watson was a founder and co-director of Harvard Project Physics.
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Bertram Bruce Bertram C. "Chip" Bruce is an American educator, information scientist, and computer scientist, whose recent research has focused on democratic education. He is currently Professor Emeritus in Information Science at the University of Illinois and previously a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at National College of Ireland.
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John Lilly (computer scientist) John Lilly (born 1971) is an American-born venture capitalist and currently serves on the board of directors of the Open Source Applications Foundation and Code for America. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and is the (co)-inventor on seven US patents.
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Philip Kellman Philip Kellman is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the current cognitive psychology area chair at University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the creator and president of Insight Learning Technology, Inc, a company that aims to apply perceptual learning and adaptive learning technology to improve education. His research interests involve perception and visual cognition, specifically visual perception of objects, space, and motion. He is also an expert in perceptual learning, adaptive learning, and their applications to skill acquisition and educational technology.
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Robert F. Tinker Robert Frederick Tinker (December 11, 1941 – June 21, 2017) was an American physicist, science educator, and education technology innovator, who pioneered constructivist approaches to education, particularly novel uses of educational technology in science. He is best known for initiating the field of probeware for education. He was also the creator, with Monica Bradsher, of the first global kids online science network, the National Geographic Kids Network, and, with Sheldon Berman, the first virtual high school. He served as a co-founder and president of the Concord Consortium from 1994-2009.
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Alan Edelman Alan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) where he leads a group in Applied Computing. In 2004 Professor Edelman founded Interactive Supercomputing, recently acquired by Microsoft.
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University of the People University of the People (UoPeople) is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit institution of higher education. Founded by entrepreneur Shai Reshef in 2009, the university offers Undergraduate & Graduate School degrees and is nationally accredited and recognized by the United States Department of Education (U.S.DoED), Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). It is also approved by California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE).
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Tyler Cowen Tyler Cowen ( ; born January 21, 1962) is an American economist, who is an economics professor at George Mason University, where he holds the Holbert C. Harris chair in the economics department. He hosts the economics blog, "Marginal Revolution", together with co-author Alex Tabarrok. Cowen and Tabarrok also maintain the website "Marginal Revolution University", a venture in online education.
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Cialfo Cialfo is a Singapore-based educational technology (EdTech) company founded by Stanley Chia and Rohan Pasari. The name Cialfo comes from the beginning of the three Latin words of the Olympic tagline - "Citius, Altis, Fortius", which means "faster, higher, stronger". It started out as a college application management consultancy and eventually conceptualised its own proprietary software platform. It released its platform application - Companion, on 28 June 2016, which uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to automate tasks. Cialfo charges subscription fees for using its platform to manage students; students can use limited features for free to get a better idea of university application process. With Companion, it helps students to streamline and efficiently manage application processes for universities in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Curiosity (learning platform) Curiosity was founded by CEO Gabe Vehovsky in November 2014, after being launched as part of Discovery Communications in January 2014. Vehovsky, a Discovery executive responsible for seeking business opportunities in online education, recommended that the company build a platform aimed at providing educational content. Curiosity spun off from Discovery in November 2014. Curiosity raised $6 million in a Series A funding round in November 2014 from a number of Chicago-based investors, including Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Origin Ventures, Chicago Ventures, and Corazon Capital.
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Quantifind Quantifind is a data platform companies use to understand drivers of key business metrics. The company was founded in 2009 by Ari Tuchman and John Stockton, two physicists from Stanford University. After winning a grant from the National Science Foundation, Quantifind worked on pilots for technology and defense intelligence mapping, before a meeting with Disney prodded the company to focus its data science on helping marketers.
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NovoEd NovoEd is a for-profit educational technology company, founded by Stanford University professor Amin Saberi and PhD student Farnaz Ronaghi, that partners with universities, foundations, and corporations to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) as well as small private online courses (SPOCS). Launched originally as Venture Lab, it rebranded to its present name in 2013. Like many other online learning platforms, students view lecture videos online as individuals, but NovoEd's unique selling point is that students can collaborate in small teams and submit assignments with classmates around the world. The company claims to have found success and higher completion rate with this focus on collaboration.
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Kate Lorig Dr. Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H., is an American professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center. She is known for her work on chronic disease and patient education, has published several books and peer-reviewed journal articles in those fields, and developed a peer-led self-management course for patients with chronic diseases. Lorig is herself a chronic disease patient, having been diagnosed with Gaucher's disease at the age of three.