News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. Parent comment

Re:Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan a... by sentenza on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:42AM (#7142752)
Heh. Coursentenza. Not all that bad for a site name.

Probably the best way would be to build a solid network of non-english speaking Universities and then, once the kinks are worked out, have them also publish their english-language courses.

There are quite a bunch of Universities out there that already publish lectures, and I'd imagine that with time there will be more and more. A particular example of quality is TIMMS[1], which has been around almost as long as MIT open courseware.

[1] http://timms.uni-tuebingen.de/Themen/Themen.aspx

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan a... by kfk on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:49AM (#7142770)
OK, since we are doing bar talk here. I have a gut feeling that North European Universities will jump into this soon enough. They want to be innovative, if they had a good platform with some kind of official back up, they would be adding courses in a blink of an eye.
[ Parent | on HN ]