Online Learning Update

September 3, 2012

Khan Academy and Coursera adopt crowd sourced subtitling platform for online learning

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

by Ishan Srivastava, TNN

Amara, a crowd source subtitling platform that engages volunteers from around the world to translate online videos, announced on Tuesday that it’s being adopted by Coursera and Khan Academy, to make academic video content globally accessible. Launched in 2010, Amara has already added more than 200,000 subtitles in 100 different languages to online videos. This new approach to subtitling allows video makers to breakdown political, social and cultural barriers to reach a vastly wider audience. Earlier, Amara volunteers had subtitled the KONY 2012 video in 30 languages in just two days.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Khan-Academy-and-Coursera-adopt-crowd-sourced-subtitling-platform/articleshow/15901364.cms

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