Comment on Alibaba and Peking University Establish Chinese MOOC Platform by TutorGroup, World’s Largest Online Language Institute Unveils ‘Expert On Demand’ Service | Business Brain Food

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Chinese MOOCs – an online course platform for the global Chinese-speaking audience and anyone interested in Chinese language and culture – was recently jointly launched by Alibaba and Peking University, one of the foremost Chinese seats of education. Like Coursera, all the courses on Chinese MOOCs are for free and certificates are offered for the completion of some courses. Chinese MOOCs is similar to XuetangX.com, a MOOC site launched in October 2013 by Tsinghua University, another top Chinese university, on top of Open edX, the open source initiative by online course site edX. Chinese MOOCs is another effort in online education by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The company also established a joint venture with New Oriental Education & Technology, a leading private education company, to develop educational apps and services.