Coursera Bringing Online Education to Latin America Christina Farr - VentureBeat
go to original February 13, 2014

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Coursera has inked a partnership deal with the Carlos Slim Foundation to bring high-quality and affordable online courses to Latin America.

The news was announced at a press conference in Mexico City by Carlos Slim, a Mexican business magnate and philanthropist, and Coursera cofounder Daphne Koller. The pair expressed their shared goal to improve access to high-quality content in Spanish.

“Through online education, Coursera is making courses available to millions of people, instead of only to a small number of students. Job markets currently demand people that are highly trained and that engage in continuous education,” a spokesperson from the Carlos Slim Foundation wrote to me.

The goal is to translate 50 English-language courses into Spanish by the end of the year. The foundation is currently partnered up with Mexico National University and Tecnológico de Monterrey to make more original Spanish-language courses available.

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