Such attitudes only increase the hate from the affected countries towards US.
Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria
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#32"All students from Syria" Both in loyalist and insurgent areas?
That's a Solomon solution, I have to admit.
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#33dark times
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#34I find this simply shocking.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
So that startup can have their Paypal account frozen? No thank you. Probably the best way is to create a Coursera competitor.
That's tough. Not because the software isn't out there (see open edX), but because of the content. The big attraction is that this is content from premier universities. If you open Coursentenza, how could students (or employers/colleges) down the road assess the quality of the education you offer?
Heh. Coursentenza. Not all that bad for a site name.
Probably the best way would be to build a solid network of non-english speaking Universities and then, once the kinks are worked out, have them also publish their english-language courses.
There are quite a bunch of Universities out there that already publish lectures, and I'd imagine that with time there will be more and more. A particular example of quality is TIMMS[1], which has been around almost as long as MIT open courseware.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would if I were in US.
If you were in the US they wouldn't listen to you either, so don't feel too bad.
Bullshit. If you work at it, you can change things. Sometimes it's not as fast, or as much as you want. And it's likely to be a lot of hard work. But you can help change things for the better.
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#37Don't live in any of those countries (Australia) but Coursera should take a very hard look at themselves. I have a few friends from those countries and they are great scientists/engineers cause they recognize that through education and improving learning standards the world could truly be their oyster. Thanks for taking it away.
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#38It would be nice if there were a safe harbor for open source/educational/non-dual-use materials even to individuals in a sanction-restricted regime. I doubt the Government of Cuba (the true target of the sanctions) would get material benefit from free courses for their populace. Certainly only the most indirect and limited military benefit. Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, the treasury and state restrictions aren'…
Yep. Surely an uneducated adversarial population is more dangerous in the long run than an educated and productive one? I cannot possibly fathom the intended outcome of this sanction. Keeping a few kids from doing programming courses is not going to help the US ever have friendly ties with them. And it's not like this is an issue about which the opposing govt will care enough about to change their policies.
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#39Don't live in any of those countries (Australia) but Coursera should take a very hard look at themselves. I have a few friends from those countries and they are great scientists/engineers cause they recognize that through education and improving learning standards the world could truly be their oyster. Thanks for taking it away.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's tough. Not because the software isn't out there (see open edX), but because of the content. The big attraction is that this is content from premier universities. If you open Coursentenza, how could students (or employers/colleges) down the road assess the quality of the education you offer?
Heh. Coursentenza. Not all that bad for a site name. Probably the best way would be to build a solid network of non-english speaking Universities and then, once the kinks are worked out, have them also publish their english-language courses. There are quite a bunch of Universities out there that already publish lectures, and I'd imagine that with time there will be more and more. A particular example of quality is TI…
OK, since we are doing bar talk here. I have a gut feeling that North European Universities will jump into this soon enough. They want to be innovative, if they had a good platform with some kind of official back up, they would be adding courses in a blink of an eye.