China launches a national MOOC platform

March 6, 2015. (12:00) One of China's top universities has teamed up with Alibaba (the world's largest online sales company) to launch a platform with Chinese MOOCs. On the brand new platform you can already find 26 courses from Peking University on topics such as music, statistics, law, chemistry, history and others.

Participation in courses is free, but there is an opportunity to get a paid certificate. These courses have an unlimited number of participants and include forum discussions. In the beginning only Bejing University is listed on the course site but in the future there will be five more schools listed.

It should be noted that such large-scale online courses are not new to China. Quite a number of Coursera MOOCs have been translated into Chinese, and Andrew Ng, founder of the platform, announced that China is the second largest and fastest growing market for online courses, with the United States in first place. And the localized version of EdX XuetangX now has more than four hundred courses.

Source: http://www.edutainme.ru/