By Miguel Amigot II Education is a genius and growing form of marketing for software companies, especially those with developer communities. If you can also provide micro credentials with your courses, then you’ll generate leads as people share them on social media in order to advance their careers. You’ll also be able to drive up usage at your client companies as more team members understand your platform (thereby achieving internal network effects). Databricks follows this strategy by issuing Apache Spark certifications, Microsoft with Azure and NVIDIA via its Deep Learning Institute at https://courses.nvidia.com      Miguel Amigot II is the CTO at IBL Education (Open edX)
The last five institutions joining the MicroMasters are: Harvard Extension School for the programs in supply chain management (SCM) and data, economics and development policy (DEDP); Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México for DEDP; Hong Kong Polytechnic University for SCM; Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, in Thailand, for SCM, DEDP, and the programs in manufacturing principles and statistics and data science; and Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, in Germany, for SCM. Delivered on edX.org, MITx MicroMasters courses offer the same learning as MIT courses. Harvard Extension School and MIT Announce New MicroMasters Initiative MIT News: MicroMasters Adds New Pathways to Master's Degrees
To help in difficulties, a freelance developer based in Mexico, Lawrence McDaniel, has posted in this blog a basic troubleshooting guide with solutions. Interestingly, McDaniel says that "the cure-all is restarting the platform". "When your Open edX installation is misbehaving and you’re unsure of your next step, I always like to begin with a reboot. It can’t hurt, and occasionally you’re pleasantly surprised to find your instance in good health immediately afterward." These are the topics of the guide: Restarting the Open edX platform Forgot your Open edX admin username or password Open edX email is flagged as spam Poor server performance HTTP firewall ports Application configuration errors Comprehensive theming problems MySQL database errors Linux file permissions Internal server authentication problems Nginx web server configuration problems Celery configuration problems Django configuration problems
SEPTEMBER 2018 – NEWSLETTER #9 | More stories at IBL News PLATFORMS • Global Knowledge launches a new hybrid format on its Open edX platform • FUN Open edX platform's revenue streams to achieve financial sustainability SOFTWARE • edX recommends upgrading its Open edX platform to Hawthorn.2 • Overseas freelancers offer to install basic Open edX for $160 • Opinion: Jupyter is a surprisingly powerful teaching tool which works well with Open edX COURSES & PROGRAMS • TU Delft reaches the two million learners milestone • MIT's introductory course about computer science on edX reaches 1.2M online learners • United Nation's sustainable development courses on edX.org • The 2018 best edX instructors ANANT AGARWAL • Anant Agarwal wins the Yidan Prize for his work with the edX platform • Anant Agarwal's column: How MOOCs help the skills transformation issue This newsletter about Open edX is a monthly report compiled by the IBL News journalist 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. Read the latest IBL Newsletter on Learning Innovation  |  Archive of Open edX Newsletters
"We have created a learning experience that will resonate with many in the corporate world," explained Kevin Pawsey, Global CIO at Global Knowledge, on a blog post. The first Blended Live courses will be amongst Global Knowledge's most popular subjects:Â Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices, Cybersecurity Foundations, and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions. Global Knowledge's online platform includes the Open edX codebase and has been developed in partnership with IBL Education.
