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Coursera CEO Rick Levin on Crowd Sourcing

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    Pathan
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    American crowdsourcing phenomenon is
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    very much pardon this so for one
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    arm we appear grading so the students
    volunteer to grade other
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    people's grades this is on essays and
    and
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    written materials everything else is
    machine grid computer programming
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    assignments in
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    mathematical tests and multiple choice
    test we've got
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    machine grade but what to write an essay
    written a paragraph
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    with and we've been crowdsourcing that
    among students and former students in
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    the course
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    and the dont the the volunteer spirit is
    amazing and
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    actually the great corley very well with
    the professors on
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    and that worked well another form a
    volunteer engagement is
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    people think he's courses in part
    through the PTA's for the next for the
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    next time the course runs
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    and we got ok community is that our
    truly volunteer
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    and that is for help others and
    answering questions
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    and then finally translation and we're
    translating
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    most of our content in English although
    we have French in and Latin American
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    universities offering
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    no French and Spanish Portuguese
    respectively but the
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    but but there's tremendous demand for
    these courses in China
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    that middle East so weird you know we've
    got community
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    translated translators again
    crowdsourcing translation
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    up that lease the subtitles the lectures
    and by the way
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    all the lectures are subtitled in
    English to start with this already done
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    that's to help people with special
    requirements
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    you know disadvantage disabled camp you
    know hear that the
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    the words arm so that the BU starting
    with those with that we have people
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    we with you know thousands of people in
    translation forces
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    amazing
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    what
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Coursera CEO Rick Levin on Crowd Sourcing
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In this exclusive interview with genConnect.com, Coursera CEO Rick Levin discusses the significance of crowd funding/sourcing. Levin is the longest tenured president in Yale University history. Click here for the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYryy9uQYKhjsYb4xgQ4w-S2VhRGt5dtj

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