Colaboratory is a free Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud. With Colaboratory you can write and execute code, save and share your analyses, and access powerful computing resources, all for free from your browser. After specifying the URL of the Jupyter Notebook – either hosted on GitHub or Google Colab – instructors only need to write the text of the button that students will see in order to launch it. The Jupyter Google Colab XBlock, available on GitHub, comes after the Jupyter Notebook grader and viewer XBlocks for Open edX. Repository on GitHub Colaboratory at Google IBL News: An Open Book to Empower Using Jupyter for Teaching IBL News: The 2018 Jupyter Notebook Conference Highlighted the Success of this Tool in Education
"It is a very powerful tool for our students," Dr. Tobe Phelps, CTO at this community college, explained in a conversation with IBL News last Monday. CNM's innovation in this field has been driven by the goal to "convert college-owned technology to student-owned technology," added Mr. Phelps. In August 2017, this institution joined the Blockcert pilot with MIT, and in November 2017 successfully issued the first certificates for their deep dive coding camp. Less than a year later, in August 2018 CNM announced that all of their graduates would receive optional diplomas. Additionally, this community college recently entered into a partnership agreement and started the development of a blockchain education ecosystem, which includes higher-ed institutions, students, employers, as well as government agencies and other community members. [Dr. Tobe Phelps pictured above during his talk at the Innovation Conference in New York on Monday, showing some of the issued blockcerts certificates.]
FEBRUARY – MARCH 2019 – NEWSLETTER #14 | More breaking news at IBL News OPEN EDX • Open edX Conference’s Schedule: 10 Key Sessions • Ten 5-Min Talks of Open edX Vendors to Attend • Ironwood, The Latest Open edX Version, To Be Released Soon INITIATIVES • ​An Open Book to Empower Using Jupyter for Teaching • Edraak Launches its School Learning for K-12 Children in the Arab World • EdCast Acquires Leapest, a European B2B Training Specialist COURSES & PROGRAMS • A MOOC to Deal with a Post-Truth World Developed by SUNY​ • Dr. Chuck's MOOC on Python Is Now Also on edX.org • Looking for the Right Name for the MOOC-based Degrees MIT • MITx Granted 1,277 Credentials on its Supply Chain MicroMasters • MIT Issues 2,000 Blockchain-Based Certificates • A Free MIT Course for Practitioners on Competency-Based Education 2019 UPCOMING EVENTS • Education Calendar 2019 –   FEB | MARCH | APRIL  | MAY  | JUNE – DEC 2019 This newsletter about Open edX is a monthly report compiled by the IBL News staff, in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company that builds AI analytics-driven, revenue-oriented learning ecosystems, and courses with Open edX and other educational software. Read the latest IBL Newsletter on Learning Innovation  |  Archive of Open edX Newsletters
SUNY Albany and Empire State College have created a MOOC to help learners recognize their own biases and identify preconceptions in today's social information environment. "Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World" is a six-week open, free course, taught by eight top instructors from SUNY, starting on March 18. This MOOC is hosted at University at Buffalo’s platform and runs on an independent Open edX-based ecosystem, empowered by IBL Education. Join our #Metaliteracy Learning Community @linkrEducation to share ideas about how to teach with our forthcoming @OpenEdX MOOC Empowering Yourself in a Post-Truth World https://t.co/8JnhOxal6D @PBKTrudi @KelseyMoak @Gabe_Flacks pic.twitter.com/g2h8FoWJO2 — Thomas P Mackey (@TomMackey) February 27, 2019
The edX organization has chosen, following its own criteria, twenty-eight 5-minute duration talks, which will be spread into five different rooms from 2 pm to 3 pm on Thursday 28. Most of the speakers belong to vendor companies that specialize in the Open edX software. Here is the complete list of talks. This is a selection of the ten must-attended talks, according to IBL News' editorial staff: Agile training on Agile software – Ildi Morris, Morris Learning Design; Vicki Lindem, Cybereason; Nate Aune, Appsembler Even more useful analytics tool for Open edX instructors – Alexandra Nabokina, RaccoonGang Flexible gamification module – Max Sokilsky, RaccoonGang; Sergey Baranov, Applied Materials Deploying a robust, scalable Open edX platform in 1 click (or less) – Régis Behmo, overhang.io Proactive monitoring for open edX installations with Prometheus + Grafana – Jhony Avella, eduNEXT Making Open edX the first blockchain-based learning platform – Miguel Amigot, IBL Education Building an engagement circuit using online learning – John McDonough, Harvard University; Meghan Morrissey, Harvard University A toolkit for collaborative learning in Open edX – Juan Camilo Montoya, eduNEXT Marsha: an open LTI video provider for Open edX – Mehdi Benadda, France Université Numérique Extending the course discovery service for delivery on WordPress frontend – Zachary Trabookis, Clemson University
