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Coursera: Coursera Partnering with Top Global Organizations Supporting Translation Around the World
Editor’s note: The following post is the press release for our brand new Global Translation Partners program!Coursera, a leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider, is announcing a partnership with ten top organizations from eight countries to translate complete course lectures across multiple disciplines for students around the world, for free. Leading translation companies, philanthropic organizations, mobile carriers, nonprofits, corporations and universities have joined forces in this partnership, including Digital October, Es Corporation, Kcell, Koc University, Lemann Foundation, Meedan, New Thinking, Taghreedat, and Victor Pinchuk Foundation. The organizations will begin translating select courses into many of the most popular language markets reflected by Coursera students: Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Kazakh, and Arabic. Each Coursera Global Translation Partner will begin by translating 3-5 select courses, with the majority of translated c…