If you live in Cuba, Iran or Sudan, and are using the increasingly popular online education tool Coursera, you are likely encounter some access difficulties from this week onwards. Coursera has been included in the US export sanctions regime.

The changes have only come about now, as Coursera believed they and other MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses - didn't fall under American export bans to the countries. However, as the company explained in a statement on their official blog: "We recently received information that has led to the understanding that the services offered on Coursera are not in compliance with the law as it stands."

http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/01/coursera/