Engineering at Coursera

speaker: Jiquan Ngiam, Director of Engineering event: Friday Hacks #103 ** deep learning research with Andrew Ng around 2011, put a page to guage interest in a machine learning class ** launched Coursera in 2012 existing system is designed for the efficiency of the educator to bring education to the world, more personalized ** how can we improve an existing course? a/b testing, gamification ** size of Coursera 180 people, about 60 in engineering ** business model pay for certificates, works for specializations

• sequence of classes with a project ** engineering structured in five teams
• growth
• learning experience
  • discussion/forums
  • course evaluations
    • automated grading
    • peer review
• content creation
• mobile
• infrastructure ** challenges challenges are innovation in learning