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Coursera Inc. ( / kərˈsɛrə /) is a for-profit U.S.-based global massive open online course provider founded in 2012 [2] [3] by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. [4] Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects.
OpenCourseWare. OpenCourseWare ( OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet. OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining traction in Europe and then the United States have become a worldwide means of delivering educational content.
Online learning involves courses offered by primary institutions that are 100% virtual. Online learning, or virtual classes offered over the internet, is contrasted with traditional courses taken in a brick-and-mortar school building. It is a development in distance education that expanded in the 1990s with the spread of the commercial Internet ...
The crew of the BAe-125 was instructed to change course, slow down, and remain at an altitude of 3,000 feet. After landing, the Piper's crew reported that the cloud cover had broken in the conditions of minimal visibility. The crew was instructed to descend further, but failed to do so.
Course Hero was founded by Andrew Grauer at Cornell University in 2006 for college students to share lectures, class notes, exams and assignments. [4] In November 2014, the company raised $15 million in Series A Funding, with investors that included GSV Capital and IDG Capital. Seed investors SV Angel and Maveron also participated. [5]
The aircraft involved was a 74-year-old Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, military serial number 44-83575 (variant B-17G-85-DL) with civilian registration N93012. The aircraft was painted as a representation of a different B-17G, [5] Nine-O-Nine , with military serial number 42-31909 (variant B-17G-30-BO), which had been scrapped shortly after World ...
Max Arthur Conrad, Jr. (January 21, 1903 – April 3, 1979, in Summit, New Jersey) known as the "Flying Grandfather", was a record-setting aviator. In the 1950s and 1960s, he set nine official light plane world records, three of which still stand as of 2013.
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Warsaw, Poland to New York City, the United States.In the late-morning hours of 9 May 1987, the Ilyushin Il-62M operating the flight crashed in the Kabaty Woods nature reserve on the outskirts of Warsaw around 56 minutes after departure.