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"By Carl Straumsheim March 6, 2015 1 Comment Massive open online course provider Coursera this week drew the ire of some translators on Twitter after claiming "that the quality of the Coursera's Global Volunteer Translator Community... is better than a professional translator." The roughly 5,600 volunteer members of the community help translate lecture video subtitles. After a number of critical tweets, including from Coursera critic Paul-Olivier Dehaye, the MOOC provider deleted the tweet. Coursera later apologized in its Global Translator Community newsletter. Dehaye chronicled the exchanged on Storify."

"Creating a user account in the LRE is easy and totally free of charge. LRE uses an OpenID login system. This means that first you need to create an OpenID account and then you can login with it on the LRE portal. European Schoolnet is using the OpenID for most of its websites and services."

New Translator agreement. The PDF is actually dated Oct. 3, 2014 in the properties. Archived in http://www.webcitation.org/6TfKOJHBY on 2014-10-28 The https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/translations%2FCoursera%20Translator%20TOS.pdf of its former one now says AccesDenied in a chunk of XML. However its changing versions were archived - in http://www.webcitation.org/6SttqGNYz on 2014-09-27 - in http://www.webcitation.org/6SSA3w3F7 on 2014-09-06 - in http://www.webcitation.org/6PS41wkK8 on 2014-05-09

The updated version is even more disadvantageous for GTC volunteers, in that it does not mention the "goog and valuable consideration" that Coursera was to provide in exchange for translation work.