MOOCs Are No Longer A Cultural Export Of The West - Jessica Lieber, Fast Company

A much wider array of nations are now become MOOC adopters and providers. On edX, a non-profit founded at MIT and Harvard in May 2012, a total of 1.2 million students from non-Western nations have signed up, and now non-English language courses are offered from universities in 20 countries, including as India, Mexico, France, and Hong Kong. Using edX’s open-source codebase, 12 Chinese institutions launched their own platform, XuetangX, which Agarwal says has already signed up some 300,000 users since last year. When the Queen Rania Foundation in Jordan opened up a similar portal, Edraak, to provide Arabic language content from three Middle Eastern schools, it adapted the edX code base so it could display text from right to left. Currently there are almost a dozen other countries working to launch their own versions of edX, according to Agarwal. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033132/moocs-are-no-longer-a-cultural-export-of-the-west