Learning At Scale | February 2020: Coronavirus, ASU, MIT, Instructure, Cornerstone, Udemy…

FEBRUARY 2020 – NEWSLETTER #31 | Breaking news at IBL News | Noticias en Español   Coronavirus' Outbreak • Time to Cancel Your Ed Conference? Facebook Pulls Out of Its Biggest Event; Microsoft Follows • The World's Largest Smartphone Conference Canceled Due to Coronavirus Concerns • International Education Will Be Disrupted by the Coronavirus Travel Ban • UMass Boston Student Contracted the Coronavirus; 100 at Princeton University Self-Quarantined • Over 25,000 ASU Students Demand to Cancel Classes Due to a Coronavirus Case on Campus   Higher Ed • Michael Crow Gets a $30 Million Gift from State Farm to Fund a Workforce Development Program at ASU • The Annual Jupyter Conference Is Back – It Will Take Place on August 10-14 in Berlin, Germany • MIT Donates the $850,000 Received from Epstein and Suspends Prof. Seth Lloyd   Corporate Business • Cornerstone OnDemand Acquires Saba for $1.4 Billion • Udemy Claims a Valuation of $2 Billion and Announces 5,000 Corporate Clients • Course Hero: $100M in Revenue, 1M Subscribers, and a Valuation of $1.1 Billion • Canadian EdTech Top Hat Raises $55M Trying to Disrupt the Textbook Industry • Has 2U Turned the Corner? Quarterly Reports Show Improved Revenue and the Stock Surges 11%   Instructure / Canvas LMS • Instructure's CEO Steps Down and the Board Approves a Tender Offer to Acquire All Outstanding Shares • Thoma Bravo Raises Its Offer for Instructure to $49 Per Share, but Investors Might Demand a Higher Price • Instructure's Shares Fell 3% Amid Concerns that the $2 Billion Takeover from Thoma Bravo Will Fail • Dissident Investors Are Likely to Derail the Instructure Transaction Unless They Get an Improved Offer   2020 Upcoming Events • Education Calendar – MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY – DEC | Conferences in Latin America & Spain   This newsletter is created in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company specialized in open-source learning platforms. Read the latest IBL Newsletter | Archive of Open edX Newsletters

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Learning At Scale | July 2019: Amazon, Oxford, JetBlue, Facebook, McGraw-Hill Education…

JULY 2019 – NEWSLETTER #24 ON ONLINE EDUCATION AT SCALE   HIGHER ED • Moody's: College revenue growth lagged in 2018 • Amazon Partners with George Mason University to Launch a Cloud-Based Degree • University of Oxford Will Invest $190 Million on Humanities and Create an Institute for Ethics in AI • Capella Online University Opens a Brick-and-Mortar Center to Provide In-Person Support   COURSES • 400+ Online Courses With Real College Credit That You Can Access For Free • European MOOC Platforms Plan New Generation of Microcredentials • Billionaire Mark Cuban Takes Online Coding Classes to Sharpen His Investment Skills   INDUSTRY • JetBlue Eases the Financial Burden of Their Crew Members Earning a Master’s Degree • Facebook Teams Up With Community Colleges to Offer Certificate Programs on Digital Marketing • McGraw-Hill Education Chief Financial Officer Mike Evans Resigns   INVESTMENT • Degreed Raises an Additional $75M to Expand Its Career Development Business • Wiley Buys ZyBooks in $56M Cash Deal to Bolster Courseware Offerings • ETS Invests in New Edtech Startup Accelerator Run by LearnLaunch • Zuckerberg-Backed AltSchool Gives Up on Schools and Focuses on Tech. It's a Major Makeover   AI • Artificial Intelligence in Education is Here to Stay: Will it Augment or Replace? • AI Education: Penn State Will Use a Virtual Assistant in Academic Advising   VIEWS • Are the Golden Years of Education Entrepreneurship Gone? • Ideas to Boost Your Course Completion Rate • Teachers, Administrators or Students? What Sector Should Data Focus On?   2019 UPCOMING EVENTS Education Calendar – JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCT–DEC 2019   This newsletter about learning innovation is a monthly report compiled by IBL News and IBL Education. If you enjoy what you read please consider forwarding it to spread the word. Click here to subscribe. Read the latest IBL Newsletter on Online Education at Scale | Archive of Open edX Newsletters

Learning At Scale | June 2019: SNHU, SUNY, USC, Emeritus, Walmart, Carnegie Mellon…

JUNE 2019 – NEWSLETTER #23 ON ONLINE EDUCATION AT SCALE   HIGHER ED • SNHU, with 135K students and an army of 6k adjuncts, wants to be the "Nordstrom's of higher education", says its president Paul LeBlanc. • NY University System will focus on increasing its online presence. • "Emerging markets are a large opportunity to boost online enrollment", says Emeritus CEO. • Higher education enrollments will continue its decline throughout the next decade. College closures will increase in 2019.   ACADEMIA • Canadian educator Heather Payne says that tenure should be abolished. • Ángel Cabrera, George Mason University's president, named the sole finalist for the Georgia Tech presidency. • Michigan State named Stony Brook president as the new leader. Samuel Stanley Jr. created 240 faculty positions. • A billionaire investor pledged to pay off the student debt of Morehouse College's 396 graduating young men during his commencement speech. • USC's partnership with 2U didn't work at all. The school is facing a budget crisis that may result in nearly half of the staff losing their jobs.   INDUSTRY • Walmart expanded the $1 a day degree program to more universities. • OpenSesame corporate learning marketplace, with 20,000 courses, raised $28 million to help it grow faster. • SAS software provider debuted in higher education with an advanced cloud-based analytical solution. Jenzabar improved its analytics suite.   RESEARCH • Carnegie Mellon University released its first wave of open-source learning tools. Interview with the leader behind the initiative. • Tecnológico de Monterrey released an elaborated report on alternative credentials (PDF).   VIEWS • Actionable data is the most disappointing late arrival in teaching and learning in higher ed. • Online education doesn't work for disadvantaged populations, those unprepared for college and first-time students. • Achieving 85% completion rates for online courses. • It's all about money? There is no difference between for-profit and public higher ed, said George Siemens. • Instructional designers forget what makes a course successful. • A model involving faculty for course design. • An Institution prepares students for jobs which won't be automatized. • Netflix-style service Cengage Unlimited reaches 1.5 million subscribers.   2019 UPCOMING EVENTS • Education Calendar – JUNE | JULY | AUG – DEC 2019   This newsletter about learning innovation is a monthly report compiled by IBL News and IBL Education. If you enjoy what you read please consider forwarding it to spread the word. Click here to subscribe. Archive: IBL Newsletter #22– May 2019 IBL Newsletter #21– April 2019 IBL Newsletter #20– March 2019 IBL Newsletter #19– January 2019

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Learning At Scale | May 2019: Creative Commons, Docker, Coursera, Pluralsight…

[ Newsletter format | Click here to subscribe ] MAY 2019 – NEWSLETTER #22 ON ONLINE EDUCATION AT SCALE INITIATIVES • Creative Commons developed a new Search engine which allows users to find and use 300 million open licensed images. • Docker created a foundation to educate minority engineers. • The Horizon Report for 2019 examined what past predictions got wrong, and gamification in education is one of them.   OPM • A 10-year contract means signing away your digital future, said an Extension Engine manager. • "Be careful when you hire an OPM: Outsourcing your virtual future is a bad idea", writes Robert Ubell.   INDUSTRY • Knewton, who raised $180m in total funding to promote its adaptive learning technology, sold its assets to Wiley for an undisclosed amount. • McGraw-Hill and Cengage, two of the country's three biggest textbook publishers, announced that they would merge. • Credly raised $11.1 million in new funding. This digital credentials company acquired Acclaim from Pearson last year.   ACADEMIA • Arizona State University (ASU) is adopting an AI-powered calculus learning platform created by two math professors at Stevens. • The Unizin consortium added Rutgers and Miami universities, along with two vendors, Examity and Kaltura. • Georgia Tech disclosed a data breach that could have exposed the personal information of 1.3 million people. •"At the end of the day, we reflect the voice of the learner", says edX's CEO.   LEARNING PLATFORMS • SEEK Australian Marketplace acquired 50% of FutureLearn for $64M. • Coursera raised an additional $103 million placing itself closer to an IPO. • Pluralsight made its first acquisition since it went public in May 2018. It bought GitPrime, a code repository platform, for $170 million in cash. • Austin-based training platform A Cloud Guru raised $33 million to expand its content library and hire more instructors, engineers, and staff.   2019 UPCOMING EVENTS • Education Calendar – MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG – DEC 2019   This newsletter about learning innovation is a monthly report compiled by IBL News and IBL Education. If you enjoy what you read please consider forwarding it to spread the word. Click here to subscribe. Archive: IBL Newsletter #21– April 2019 IBL Newsletter #20– March 2019 IBL Newsletter #19– January 2019 IBL Newsletter #18 – December 2018 IBL Newsletter #17 – November 2018

Learning At Scale | April 2019: Georgia Tech, Coursera, edX, 2U, Instructure…

APRIL 2019 – NEWSLETTER #21 ON ONLINE EDUCATION AT SCALE   DEGREES AT SCALE • Holy Cross and Notre Dame Start a New Model Around an Online Master’s • The story of OMSCS, the largest master's program in computer science, with 10,000 students and 2,000 alumni • Master’s degrees which can be completed online • Research: Top online Artificial Intelligence courses and programs at scale • Success at Scale: The growth of large-scale online programs (UPCEA Report)   ACADEMIA • Technologies and policies needed to transform education, according to ASU's Michael Crow • Carnegie Mellon University announced that it will open source its OLI adaptive software and LearnSphere learning analytics platform. These tools are valued at $100 million. • Charles Isbell, professor and executive associate dean, named Dean of College of Computing at Georgia Tech, effective July 1 • 37 % of all graduate education in the U.S. is now online or blended. A significant transition ahead • Most colleges report online students perform about the same as face-to-face • Gartner: Top 10 strategic technologies impacting higher ed in 2019 • View: OPMs as banks and enrollment machines   MOOC PLATFORMS • Coursera announced two MOOC-based degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder • edX, the first non-profit OPM: “We can change the economics of customer acquisition and retention” • Udacity laid off 20% of its workforce, 75 employees, in order to be "a profitable company by the next quarter" • GFC Learning Free becomes the second largest MOOC platform • FutureLearn MOOC platform offers unlimited access for $199 per year • Coursera released a Global Skills Index benchmarking 60 countries and 10 industries   INTERVIEWS • Ray Schroeder: “Universities have to change to meet students’ needs” • Michigan Ross’s Develops One of the Most Ambitious Initiatives in Online Learning • Philanthropy University’s CEO says MOOCs are about social ROI • “When It Comes to Paying Users, the Completion Rate Is Pretty High”, says Dhawal Shah • Top professor in Health Informatics predicts the need for training in FHIR   INITIATIVES • 2U acquired Trilogy Education for $750 million and duplicated its portfolio of universities • Instructure (Canvas LMS) acquired MasteryConnect for $42.5 million to expand its K-12 footprint • Gonzaga University rolls out an AI-driven virtual assistant for tech support • The U.S. Education Department started an investigation of eight colleges named in the admissions scandal   2019 UPCOMING EVENTS • Education Calendar – APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG – DEC 2019     This newsletter about learning innovation is a monthly report compiled by IBL News and IBL Education. If you enjoy what you read please consider forwarding it to spread the word. Click here to subscribe. Archive: IBL Newsletter #20– March 2019 IBL Newsletter #19– January 2019 IBL Newsletter #18 – December 2018 IBL Newsletter #17 – November 2018  

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