OCTOBER 2019 – NEWSLETTER #21 |  More breaking news at IBL News  |  New! Noticias en Español edX • edX Cancels Its Annual Partners Conference Scheduled in Hong Kong Due to Safety Concerns • A Practical Course on edX to Learn How to Deploy an IBM Watson-Based Chatbot • edX Announces Its Eleventh Degree: A Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering • What's Ahead? Unbundled Degrees, Micro-Bachelors, and Stackable, Employer-Endorsed Credentials Coursera • Coursera Will Pay the Tuition Cost for Degree Programs to their Full-Time Employees • Coursera's Latest Low-Priced Online Master's: A Russian Degree in Data Science • Coursera Offers Its 3,600-Course Catalog to Non-Affiliated Universities • Coursera for Campus Is Not an Alternative LMS to Blackboard, Canvas, and Moodle, Says Maggioncalda • Coursera Creates a Database of 250+ Top Instructors Available to the Media • Learners at Coursera, Canvas and Blackboard Will Be Able to Ask Alexa for Course Updates Udacity • Udacity Issues Three Programs to Prepare Developers in C+++, Blockchain, and Data Streaming Technologies • Udacity Will Fund 100,000 Scholarships As Part of the Pledge to America's Workers • Udacity Claims a Record Growth in the Business of the Courses to Upskill Employees • Google and Udacity Rework Courses to Learn Kotlin, the Language for Android Apps Learning Platforms • Schoology Acquired by PowerSchool – A New Giant with 65 Million Users • Docebo Learning Platform's Stock Dropped 28% after Raising C$75 Million on its IPO • Canvas Integrates into Its LMS a Tool to Show Evidence of Students' Achievements • Google Classroom, One of the World's Top LMS: 40M Users In Five Years Conferences • The Learning with MOOCs Conference Honored Innovators in Online Education • A Conference to Find Viable Business Models to Commercialize Open Source Software 2019 Upcoming Events • Education Calendar –  OCTOBER |  NOVEMBER |  DECEMBER |  JAN – JUNE 2020 This newsletter about Open edX, edX, Coursera, Udacity, and other platforms is a monthly report compiled by the IBL News staff, in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company that has built the IBL Platform. It includes AI analytics-driven, revenue-oriented learning ecosystems, and courses with Open edX and other educational software. Read the latest IBL Newsletter on Online Education at Scale |  Archive of Open edX Newsletters
