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OCTOBER 2019 – NEWSLETTER #21 | More breaking news at IBL News | New! Noticias en Español
edX
• edX Cancels Its Annual Partners Conference Scheduled in Hong Kong Due to Safety Concerns
• A Practical Course on edX to Learn How to Deploy an IBM Watson-Based Chatbot
• edX Announces Its Eleventh Degree: A Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• What’s Ahead? Unbundled Degrees, Micro-Bachelors, and Stackable, Employer-Endorsed Credentials
Coursera
• Coursera Will Pay the Tuition Cost for Degree Programs to their Full-Time Employees
• Coursera’s Latest Low-Priced Online Master’s: A Russian Degree in Data Science
• Coursera Offers Its 3,600-Course Catalog to Non-Affiliated Universities
• Coursera for Campus Is Not an Alternative LMS to Blackboard, Canvas, and Moodle, Says Maggioncalda
• Coursera Creates a Database of 250+ Top Instructors Available to the Media
• Learners at Coursera, Canvas and Blackboard Will Be Able to Ask Alexa for Course Updates
Udacity
• Udacity Issues Three Programs to Prepare Developers in C+++, Blockchain, and Data Streaming Technologies
• Udacity Will Fund 100,000 Scholarships As Part of the Pledge to America’s Workers
• Udacity Claims a Record Growth in the Business of the Courses to Upskill Employees
• Google and Udacity Rework Courses to Learn Kotlin, the Language for Android Apps
Learning Platforms
• Schoology Acquired by PowerSchool – A New Giant with 65 Million Users
• Docebo Learning Platform’s Stock Dropped 28% after Raising C$75 Million on its IPO
• Canvas Integrates into Its LMS a Tool to Show Evidence of Students’ Achievements
• Google Classroom, One of the World’s Top LMS: 40M Users In Five Years
Conferences
• The Learning with MOOCs Conference Honored Innovators in Online Education
• A Conference to Find Viable Business Models to Commercialize Open Source Software
2019 Upcoming Events
• Education Calendar – OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | JAN – JUNE 2020
This newsletter about Open edX, edX, Coursera, Udacity, and other platforms is a monthly report compiled by the IBL News staff, in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company that has built the IBL Platform. It includes AI analytics-driven, revenue-oriented learning ecosystems, and courses with Open edX and other educational software.
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