Can online education grow up? Profiling Andrew Ng - Kent Bernhard Jr, Biz Journals

Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng — an expert on machine learning and director of Stanford's artificial intelligence lab — is currently mulling the ways his startup can position MOOCs as an employer-approved job credential. Andrew Ng has an impressive resume. But it's an open question whether his company, Coursera, can really revolutionize higher education. First Stanford, then Google, then multimillion-dollar startup. Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng has put together an impressive resumé in Silicon Valley. Now the 37-year-old Stanford computer science professor is parlaying his academic and corporate experience into a startup that aims to put an elite education within reach for anyone with a Web connection. The question is whether Coursera, which has amassed $85 million in funding, can deliver on that promise while actually making money in the sizzling education technology field. http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/innovation/2014/01/19/can-online-education-grow-up.html?page=all