This article describes an expansion of the Arabic MOOC platform Edraak. "Developed with the support of a $3 million grant from Google.org, and complemented with engagement from Google employees to provide product design expertise, the platform has launched with Mathematics materials for grades 7 and 9, including more than 1,200 educational minutes of bite-sized video lectures." Critics might not like the idea, but I can't say enough about the value of making basic knowledge freely available to people through platforms such as this. "A child denied an education isn't just a tragedy for that child; it leaves the rest of us vulnerable," said Jordan's Queen Rania, adding "but the future doesn't have to be this bleak – not in this age of innovation."
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