• Distance ed is saving higher ed: college enrollment online has steadily climbed its way up to 31.6 percent of the student population, as face-to-face continues to plummet and despite faculty resistance to digital education, has explained Robert Ubell, vice dean emeritus of online learning at NYU and author of the Going Online book. • Stanford University has named its first CIO, Stephen Gallagher, currently occupying the same position at Harvard Business School. He will oversee an IT organization with 550 staff members and a budget of $150 million, and determine which technology, systems, and data should be moved to the cloud. • Chicago plans to teach 500,000 young people in K-12 and community colleges how to code, starting with Swift, the iOS app creator language. It will follow Apple's "Everyone Can Code" program. • Highly innovative CIOs are redefining how IT works. They're ditching legacy systems, developing innovation-focused processes, reimagining work, leveraging their positions, and building the right talent and culture. • The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has built a three-story production studio that can accommodate multiple camera views and presenters, green screen operations and teleprompting when producing iMBA and other courses. • Candace Thille, a pioneer in the science of learning and open education, has taken a leave from Stanford and joined Amazon to help the retailer better train its corporate workforce (half million employees). Amazon has a history of investing heavily to produce its own top-notch internal technologies. • The use of analytics in the classroom helps to make more effective the learning experience for the student. edX’s "Analytics for the Classroom Teacher" course offers many insights in terms of using descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. This post elaborates on this. The IBL newsletter is a topic-curated email report compiled by Michael Amigot, Founder at IBL Education, a company specialized in Open edX technology and video course production. If you enjoy what you read please consider forwarding it. Click here to subscribe. Archive: IBL Newsletter #5 – January 15, 2018 IBL Newsletter #4 – December 2017 IBL Newsletter #3 – November 2017 IBL Newsletter #2 – October 2017 IBL Newsletter #1 – September 2017
• Oracle opened its newly-built Design Tech High School Video, a free public charter school, located on company's corporate campus in Redwood City, Calif. The school serves 550 students, described by Oracle's CEO as "ambassadors for the future of education". • The New York-based Thinkful has raised $9.6M in funding to grow in-person hubs for its online coding boot camp. • Complaining that higher-ed is producing too few graduates with skills they need, many employers are taking matters into their own hands by designing courses themselves. A good example is Microsoft and Linux Foundation, who have teamed up with edX. • edSurge has put on a calendar the key 50 edtech conferences happening this year. However, its events page is more exhaustive. • Coursera is shifting towards B2B. In 2017, it went from 30 to 500 companies. Each year corporations spent $150 billion spent on training. • Revature talent development company has doubled the number of engineers trained in 2017, following its model of training college graduates and placing them as consultants with their Fortune 500 client base. • Chip Paucek, CEO at 2U, said that we are now in the "third wave" of ed tech innovation with top-tier universities offering full courses online. With a $3bn valuation, in 2017, 2U saw its stock increased 114% and bought the course specialist GetSmarter for $103 million. • Having a data-driven management strategy has become a necessity at higher ed. This is one of the key trends for 2018, along with immersive learning, digital course management, enterprise-wide video, mobile tech, Internet of things and learning space design. The IBL newsletter is a topic-curated email report compiled by Michael Amigot, Founder at IBL EDUCATION, a company specialized in Open edX technology and video course production. If you enjoy what you read please consider forwarding it. Click here to subscribe. Archive: IBL Newsletter #4 – December 2017 IBL Newsletter #3 – November 2017 IBL Newsletter #2 – October 2017 IBL Newsletter #1 – September 2017
The company has reached an agreement with edX.org to enhance their employee's development program in areas such as Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Business Analytics, amongst others, Tech Mahindra announced that they will fund certifications. “This groundbreaking partnership with Tech Mahindra furthers our mission and underscores our commitment to edX learners in India and around the globe," said Anant Agarwal, edX CEO. “Training and Reskilling are more imperative and relevant to reinvent and tap into new market opportunities arising out of technological change and new customer requirements,” said CP Gurnani, CEO, and MD at Tech Mahindra.
“The enrolment numbers confirm that MOOCs remain an effective way to present UQ’s quality teaching to a global audience,” said UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Joanne Wright. She highlighted the fact that UQ has moved from the standalone "showcase" MOOCs to MicroMasters programs which are recognized by employers and can be also used by students to seek entry to on-campus programs. “We are applying that expertise to transform the on-campus delivery of courses for UQ students," Professor Wright said. UQx last year established MicroMasters programs in Business Leadership and Leadership in Global Development. UQx’s catalog on edX now stands at 47 MOOCs, including four MicroMasters programs.
This initiative is the result of a partnership between edX.org and Pearson. The programs offered include MicroMasters and professional certification: 1-   Supply Chain management – MIT 2-   Business Analytics – Columbia University 3-   Artificial intelligence – Columbia University 4-   Data Science – UC San Diego 5-   Robotics   University of Pennsylvania 6-   International Business – Thunderbird School of Management 7-   Digital Product Management Boston University 8-   Digital Marketing – Wharton “This partnership with Pearson will offer Indian learners a blended learning experience of online courses on the EdX platform with personalized instructor support and career progression assistance,” Amit Goyal, India head at edX said.
