Andrew Ng—Co-founded Coursera, making university-level AI and tech education accessible to over 100 million learners worldwide
In 2012, Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera with Daphne Koller, creating the world's largest MOOC platform. His Machine Learning course has reached over 4.8 million learners alone, and the platform now serves over 100 million learners globally, removing geographic and economic barriers to higher education.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Knowledge Access & Information Freedom | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.885 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (critical ×2) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
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Andrew Ng co-founded Coursera in 2012, which grew to serve over 100 million learners
Ng co-founded Coursera with Daphne Koller in 2012 at Stanford. His original Machine Learning course attracted over 100,000 students and the platform grew to partner with hundreds of universities, reaching over 100 million learners worldwide.