Coursera distance We're a step closer

July just completed the B-round 43 million dollar financing in the open curriculum education platform Coursera distance We are a step closer. Today, NetEase Open class announced and Coursera to reach strategic cooperation, NetEase will provide video hosting services for Coursera, and open in the NetEase public class Coursera official Chinese learning community.

Through the NetEase video hosting, the domestic user visits the Coursera not to carry on the relay through the foreign server, will greatly improve the video playback speed and the fluency degree. In addition NetEase will open up in the Open class in NetEase special "Coursera Official Chinese Learning Community" (expected to be online today, but not yet see ...) , including Coursera quality courses, videos specifically for Chinese students, and excellent course reviews. According to the introduction of NetEase, the latter will be online Coursera login account and NetEase pass through, sharing learning records and other functions.

Currently, Coursera has collaborated with 83 educational institutions on four continents to provide 400 free courses for 4 million students worldwide, together with Udacity,edx, known as Mooc's three mountain. Before cooperating with Coursera, NetEase Open class has cooperated with the higher Education Society, TED, Khan College, BBC and other famous institutions. Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng said he believes the cooperation between the two sides will better help Chinese students understand Coursera's rich online education resources.

"Online education enables the best quality education to reach the poorest and most disadvantaged areas free of charge," Xiaoping said on Weibo on the previous two days. India has a dominant position ahead of the revolution in China: English is the official language of India. Once hundreds of millions of Indians have free access to prestigious online courses such as Harvard and MIT, the pattern of competition in India and China will change. Although the wolf has not yet arrived, but the wolf is on the road. ”

In the future, this is the power of online education.