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Coursera: A new partnership to bring Coursera to the hundreds of millions of Chinese learners across the world
Today, we’d like to share news of an exciting partnership that will help make Coursera content accessible for hundreds of millions of Chinese-speaking learners throughout the world. Working with NetEase; one of China’s largest internet companies and a major distributor of open educational content — we’re embarking on an initiative to break down the language and technical barriers that have existed for our students in China. As part of this initiative, we’re proud to announce the launch of Coursera Zone, a Chinese-language portal to Coursera.org hosted on NetEase’s popular open education website open.163.com. To share a bit more about Coursera Zone — and some of the other ways in which we’re partnering with NetEase — we put a few questions to Eli Bildner, from Coursera’s Growth Team: How is Coursera working with NetEase to make course content more accessible in China? To start, Coursera and NetEase are working toget…