AMMAN - The announcement this month of an online portal for education in Arabic has some in the region hopeful over its potential contribution to educational reform and others warning it will not be a panacea.
The Edraak portal, expected to become available in spring 2014, will offer millions of students a chance to access Arabic translations of select courses taught at top-tier universities such as Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley – for free.
