Udacity MOOCs: ahora también en español y portugués
By Peter Lubbers,
Chrome Developer Relations
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as our free
Udacity HTML5 Game Development course
(CS255) have the incredible ability to reach a global audience, but language barriers still
prevent many students from participating. Today we’re announcing some steps we have taken to
break these barriers down.
As part of an initiative to empower developers in emerging markets with high-quality training
content in local languages, Google funded a project to translate a large portion of the
Udacity web development curriculum into Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Specifically, we
teamed up with Udacity to add fully translated subtitles for
CS253 (Web development),
CS255 (HTML5 games), and
CS256 (Mobile Web Dev, launching
soon—
register free
today!).
+Nick Bortolotti, a
Developer Relations Program Manager at Google in Buenos Aires who played an instrumental role
in getting the project off the ground said: “This is a tremendous contribution to the
ecosystem and the regional community. I am very excited about the new ways and possibilities.
No doubt, talented Latin American developers will be inspired with this high quality,
localized content from top speakers.”
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| ¡Que empiece la
fiesta! |
To see the translations live, go to, for example,
www.udacity.com/course/cs255 and
start taking the class. When you're in the classroom watching videos, click on the Closed
Captions (CC) button on the YouTube player and select Spanish (Mexico) or Portuguese
(Brazil).
One of the CS255 students, Edwin Rodolfo Maldonado Perez from Guatemala City, Guatemala, told
us: "In Latin America, if you study in a public school you won't have access to learning a
second language like English. When public school students grow up and look for jobs, they
don't have time or money to go to a decent language school. From there it becomes a
chicken-and-egg situation, where to get a new job or improve technical skills like learning a
new programming language, people find that almost all developer documentation is in
English."
The translations for CS253 and CS255 are already live. Enjoy!
+Peter Lubbers is a Program Manager on the Chrome
Developer Relations Team, spreading HTML5 and Open Web goodness. He is the founder of the San
Francisco HTML5 User Group--the world's first and largest HTML5 meetup with over 8,000
members. Peter is the author of "Pro HTML5 Programming" (Apress) and, yes, his car's license
plate is HTML5. In his spare time he likes to run around Lake Tahoe in one go and jump out of
airplanes.
Posted by +Scott
Knaster, Editor
