The Internet has opened up a world of educational opportunity for billions of people. But you need more than a web browser to take advantage of the Information Revolution.

"Systems have been built to provide online education, but they’re all in English," says Ragib Hasan, Ph.D. (pictured above), an assistant professor in UAB’s Department of Computer and Information Sciences. So Hasan, who runs the SECuRE and Trustworthy Computing Lab (SECRETLab) at UAB, decided to create a free course in computer security entirely in Bengali, the language of his native Bangladesh and parts of northern India.

Hasan launched his course in August 2012. Students soon started to write in, letting him know how much they appreciated his efforts. "One of them said he had always wanted to study computer science, but he was born in a very poor family, and he didn’t have the money to go to college," Hasan says. "My course actually gave him the opportunity."