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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by Karishma1234 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @11:09PM (#23886706)
It all depends on alternative. $100 is a lot of money for a kid in India, if the same kid can earn the degree while watching ads I think it does a great service to poor people because the alternative is not learning.

Alternative to a problematic suboptimal (according to you) school experience is not a perfect school experience but no-school experience.

American public schooling system has become a jobs program for adults.

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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by MrRiddle on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:15AM (#23887858)
If $100 is a lot for someone then they surely won’t be valued much as ad audience.
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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by scalableUnicon on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:05AM (#23888031)
Coursera has a financial aid program for this, and it is easy to avail if one is a student from developing countries or low income households. edX has a similar program as well, where the price will get reduced to around 1/10th of original cost. In Coursera, the price is completely discounted and you can do the course for free. See: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/209819033-Ap...
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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by paublyrne on Sunday July 19, 2020 @04:44AM (#23887960)
Spotify do regional pricing, the cost in India is about a tenth of what it costs in the United States. I don't know if Coursera do the same but I don't see why they couldn't.
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Re:Coursera valued at $2.5B after a finance round of additio... by triangleman on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:36AM (#23888160)
Hello, I wanted to let you know that your HN account is probably banned as most of your comments are dead and the only reason I can reply to this one is that a mod undeleted it.
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