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Inside Higher Ed

January 24, 2012

A pair of part-time Stanford instructors who co-taught the most successful of the university's open courses, on artificial intelligence, now have co-founded a company that will offer two similarly "open" courses beginning in February, this time independently of the Stanford name. The company, called Know Labs, aspires to be a for-profit enterprise that offers high-quality college courses on the cheap to tens of thousands of students at a time through an online learning portal called Udacity.

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