Carlos Slim Educational Platform: Mogul Launches Online School For 147 Countries

Carlos Slim presented the launch of a new platform Aprender.org, which has 72 online courses and goes from middle school to Master's degree, and is officially recognized.

Additionally, the platform will also have a job hunt section where students can search for good fits while studying at the same time.

“We need to refresh education, make it fun. Technology has allowed people to be communicated and have access to knowledge. We are looking to offer and integrate all of these courses in an educational platform where everyone can train themselves,” said Slim.

Aprende.org is active in 147 countries around the world, with 72 courses online about training, education, health and culture, which include over 3,100 short videos. The platform can also be accessed through an app called App-Prende.

Telmex Foundation general director Arturo Elías Ayub also spoke about the importance of this project. “Gratuitous educational content from middle school to Master’s degree level. [This] will be a paradigm change in which the quality of the content is one hundred percent controlled,” Elías insisted.

The typhoon announced that they had reached official agreements with Mexico’s Secretary of Public Education and the Khan Academy so that some of the courses can be officially recognized.

Slim, whose fortune exceeds the $80,000 million, also revealed that the company is working on what he called a “secondary smart phones market” to increase connectivity for those who still have no access to the Internet, so that they can access the new educational platform.

“This project will be presented in September before the International Union of Telecommunications (UIT), with the goal being that other countries join this initiative and more people around the world can have better connectivity,” Slim explained. The project is also being established with official agreements with the Secretary of Public Education and the Secretary of Social Development.