Globalized Education

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In the age of globalization and with the power of the Internet, creating online education classes for the masses is a breeze.  Coursera and Udacity prove it. 

The idea is to use technology to bring global education resources to schools to personalize education, to engage students on a daily basis in collaborative learning with global partners, and to enable teachers and students to create authentic works for others around the globe.

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Worldly Education: FREE

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E-learning startup Udacity has partnered with Amara to use crowdsourcing for closed captioning of its video assets.  Udacity's free online classes have been attended by some 750,000 students since Udacity’s launch in January.

Closed captioning could not only help Udacity to make its content accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing students, but also be the first step towards an international expansion.  

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