Saudi Arabia's Rwaq builds online courseware platform for the Middle East

It’s not every day that a leading education initiative launches from Saudi Arabia. But one Riyadh-based company is poised to offer the region something it doesn’t yet have: a fully native, fully Arabic massive open online course (MOOC) platform, with content from local professors.

Rwaq, which launched two months ago, offers courses on everything from social media, art, psychology, to medicine, engineering, and religion, in an attractive, appealing interface that reflects its progressive philosophy and universal principles. With 14 courses and “tens of thousands of users” having joined since its launch in September, Rwaq is on its way to becoming a regional hub for e-learning in the Middle East.

MOOCs, for those who’ve never tried one, are online courses, often free, that are offered to a large number of students at once, and conducted via video lectures and online assignments, as Wamda’s Nafez Dakkak has explained.

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Saudi Arabia’s Rwaq builds a online courseware platform for the Middle East