ANU delivers the world’s first Hindi-English MOOC

The Australian National University is offering the world's first bilingual Hindi-English Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The 10-week course, Engaging India , is a partnership between ANU and the global MOOC provider edX, which was founded by American universities Harvard and MIT. MOOCs are free courses, open to anyone around the world and delivered online. Engaging India already has 10,000 enrolments. "India is more than Bollywood and cricket, the Taj Mahal and yoga. It is a vibrant, many-sided nation, with a rich history that is undergoing massive change and reasserting itself on the world stage," said course co-convenor Dr McComas Taylor. As a result of the ANU course, edX has made Hindi as its third official language, allowing Indian partners such as IIT Bombay to offer global on-line courses in Hindi.
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