# Prof. Aswath Damodaran's massive open online class (Mooc) is highlighted

1 Faculty News July 21, 2013 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a5e95198-d810-11e2-9495-00144feab7de.html#axzz2ZmSlMdxE) -- "Last semester, about 30,000 students tuned in to his Massive open online course (Mooc) on Apple’s iTunes U and about 20,000 more watched it on YouTube and other online venues. ... 'Fundamentally as teachers, we like an audience and we like to perform,' says Prof [Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran). 'My primary mission is to reach as many people as I can and technology allows me to expand my classroom.'"

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