First Arab platform for MOOCs launched

By Wagdy Sawahel. In an effort to deliver world-class education to millions of Arab-speaking students and academic communities around the globe, the first not-for-profit Arab platform for MOOCs – called Edraak – has been launched.
Arabic is one of the top six languages of the United Nations and is the mother tongue to more than 350 million people in 22 Arab countries including eight in Africa, six in the Arabian Gulf and eight in Asia. Arabic is the seventh most used language on the internetafter English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and German. Read more...