RUSSIA

Coursera expands Russian reach of its online education
Coursera, a US-based online education site, plans to reach its already thriving Russian audience by translating its material into Russian, writes Diana Kulchitskaya for The Moscow Times.The California-based firm, which has five million registered users, is cooperating with the Russian company ABBYY Language Services, which will use crowdsourcing to translate the courses. Coursera, founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, will translate courses into Russian as part of a mass campaign to reach students in different languages.
Russian is Coursera's most rapidly growing audience after the US, said Ivan Smolnikov, CEO at ABBYY Language Services. Although Russian-speaking users accounted for only 2.3% of Coursera's audience in 2013, co-founder Daphne Koller recently said the number of Russian users has increased 230% in the past six months.
Full report on The Moscow Times site