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NOVEMBER 2020 – NEWSLETTER #39 | Breaking news at IBL News | Noticias en Español
Acquisitions
• Training Company Pluralsight.com Acquired by Equity Firm Vista for $3.5 Billion
• Noodle’s Latest Acquisition of HotChalk Will Increase Its Marketing Capabilities
• Instructure Acquires K12 Assessment and Analytics Company Certica Solutions
Valuations
• Language Learning App Duolingo Gets a $2.4 Billion Valuation While It Prepares its IPO
• Udemy Reaches a $3.25 Billion Valuation After Raising Another $50 Million
Initiatives
• A StartUp Brings Together Online Students in a COVID-Safe Campus Resort in Texas
• NVIDIA Creates a Learning Community Around Its Jetson AI Micro-Computer
• A Financial Education Platform Provides Short Lessons on Practical Topics
Higher Ed
• Unizin’s Consortium Partners with Blackboard to Offer Ally to its 14 Member Institutions
• International Enrollments Drop 43% in the U.S. Due to the Global Pandemic
• Educause Analyzes How Higher Education Institutions Will Emerge from the Pandemic
Trends
• CIOs and CTOs Accelerate AI, Machine Learning, 5G and IoT Due to the Pandemic
• About Half of the US Says that More Training Doesn’t Result in a Better Job
COVID-19
• The COVID Pandemic Causes Devastation to Children’s Learning Across the World
• Rensselaer Develops a Web App that Shows How COVID Will Spread in the Spring Semester
• SUNY Announces Remote Instruction Until February, Along with Mandatory Tests and Masks-Wearing
2020 Events
• Education Calendar – DEC | JAN 2021 | Conferences in Latin America & Spain
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