Translating OER - Taghreedat and Meedan

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"Taghreedat, a major Arabic e-content community building initiative...announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding 'MoU' with Meedan, the California based social translation and software NGO.

"This collaboration focuses on translating Open Education Resources 'OER', and hence increasing the availability of educational resources in Arabic language for users worldwide, particularly students.

"...the partnership will promote Taghreedat and Meedan's common goal of providing access to high quality Arabic digital educational content, Open Educational Resources, through online social translation software in the Middle East.

"This new agreement will allow Meedan, which has been working on building an online translation community since 2008, to focus its resources on program and software design and delivery. Taghreedat will work towards translating all online educational content and dialogue initiatives into Arabic through its active social media community of over 2500 volunteers.

"Ed Bice, CEO at Meedan, added, 'The collaboration with Taghreedat is a great opportunity for Meedan to increase digital Arabic educational content, and ensure language barriers do not stop people accessing these fantastic resources. With Taghreedat's translations and support through their innovative social media crowdsourcing approach, and with Meedan's focus on building innovative technologies for community translation we expect to contribute to opening access to open licensed educational resources and open source educational software across the MENA region and globally.'"