Gamechanger

Xuetangx, the leading Chinese Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) platform created by Beijing-based Tsinghua University, has broken new ground yet again. After having reached more than 7 million users worldwide in May, Xuetangx has now become the first Chinese MOOC platform to offer its online education services in Africa.

Xuetangx and the African Engineering Education Association (AEEA) reached an agreement to build a virtual private cloud platform for the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian students are now able to access 12 courses in English free of charge given by the best teachers of Tsinghua, China’s top ranked university.

President of AEEA and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at University of Lagos, spoke to reporter in Beijing on how this new breakthrough can potentially be a game changer for online education on the continent.