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31 janvier 2014

State Department Bans Coursera From Educating Underprivileged Foreigners

By Zenon Evans. Coursera, which provides massive open online courses (MOOC), has the noble mission of “connecting people to a great education so that anyone around the world can learn without limits.” Unfortunately, the State Department and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) disagree. They recently decided that the company cannot extend such opportunities to a few academically underprivileged countries.
The organization posted a notice to its website on Tuesday explaining that the U.S. government now requires it to block IP addresses in certain sanctioned countries. More...

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