Iranian Startup Offers Low-Cost Online Educational Courses

Partnering with experienced teachers, a local startup named 'Pouyanesh' has started offering educational courses online.
Through its website, pouyanesh.com, the startup offers training courses from basic sciences and engineering to music and the arts. Courses cost 100,000 rials (73 cents) an hour with the firm claiming a share of the earnings made by the teachers.
The firm's director, Masoud Qasemi, has written an introduction for the startup at the local website stshow.ir. he says those interested can easily search and register for courses, undergo training and receive certificates. The firm offers courses in collaboration with centers of higher learning.