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Coursera: Olá! Coursera Partners With Top Latin American Institutions
Coursera is now partnered with two of Brazil’s top learning institutions (our first university partners in Latin America!) to bring online courses to over 215 million native Portuguese speakers in Brazil and around the world. Brazil’s top two public universities, the University of São Paulo (USP) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), will develop courses targeted at Brazilian learners in high-demand topics from entrepreneurship to finance. The Lemann Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting social change in Brazil through education, will create teacher professional development courses targeting K-12 teachers. In collaboration with volunteers through Coursera’s Global Translator Community, the Lemann Foundation has also led the translation of additional courses, tripling the number of classes available with Portuguese subtitles and bringing the number of courses available in Portuguese to 28 by the end of the year! “Tog…