Edmodo.com Will Shut Down Its Platform and Service on September 22

The popular collaboration tool for 12-K instructors, Edmodo.com, with 100 million users, announced this month that it will shut down its free platform and service, including the mobile apps, on September 22, 2022. Seen as a competitor to Schoology and Google Classroom, Edmodo social platform has been operating for 15 years. The accounts of teachers, students, and parents are expected to be permanently deleted after the platform is shut down. "You can be assured that your personal data will not be shared, transferred, or sold to any 3rd party and, in fact, once permanently deleted, it will not be accessible or recoverable even by Edmodo," said the owner of the company, China-based, publicly-traded NetDragon Websoft, that paid $137.5 million for Edmodo in 2018. Users will need to manually export their files and information to a personal device or drive before the Edmodo platform shuts down. "After more than a decade of ensuring Edmodo can stay a free tool for all, we have found that it is no longer viable for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves," explained the parent owner company, the Hong Kong-based NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited. This Asian company — which established China's first online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless — said that the Edmodo platform will be offered in some countries outside the U.S. "The Company expects to realize substantial savings in operating cost, which will accelerate the path to reaching operating profitability of its education business." With heavy hearts, we announce the sunsetting of the Edmodo platform on September 22, 2022. It has been a pleasure serving 100 million+ users all over the world for over a decade. We apologize for any inconvenience & remain committed to providing support until then. pic.twitter.com/kDil9jn36x — Edmodo (@edmodo) August 15, 2022

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Moderna Will Train Its Employees in AI, In Partnership With Carnegie Mellon University

Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA) announced the launch of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Academy in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). With its AI Academy, the well-known biotechnology company intends to educate its employees on AI and machine learning capabilities and skills. This program will focus on data quality and data visualization, statistical thinking and models, machine learning algorithms, and AI ethics. Classes will be both in-personas and online. The AI Academy will use the CMU-home-developed learning platform called ISLE (Integrated Statistics Learning Environment). Moderna will launch the program this week with its first cohort of students. In early 2022, will be the full rollout. The company's goal is to identify and integrate these technologies into "every Moderna system and process to bring mRNA medicines to patients." The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical firm — which is pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, "attributes its speed in part to the incorporation of digital technologies," said Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna. "We believe AI is a key enabler of our ability to build the best version of Moderna now and into the future. This AI academy will enable us to make AI part of the company's ways of working, part of our DNA. We look forward to driving this with Carnegie Mellon’s team." To design and deliver Moderna's AI Academy, CMU’s Department of Statistics & Data Science, a part of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Tepper School of Business are collaborating with professors across the university.  

Docebo and EdCast Announce an Integrated Learning Solution

Two learning platforms, Docebo Inc (NASDAQ: DCBO; TSX: DCBO) and EdCast, announced a strategic integration partnership intended to create an AI-powered solution. No further financial and technical details were provided. Docebo's SEC filings page didn't reflect this partnership this week. "Our integration with EdCast’s XP creates one universal learning platform, combining the benefits of LXP and LMS into one system," said Federica Melis, Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Docebo. The declared goal of Toronto-based Docebo and Mountain View, California-based EdCast — which uses Open edX software in its tech stack — is to offer an end-to-end learning system with one place for centralized reporting for auditing compliance, and upskilling. "EdCast and Docebo are the leading platforms in our respective segments that, combined, form an end-to-end ecosystem for enhancing the employee experience via learning and upskilling," explained Karl Mehta, CEO of EdCast.  

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The New Open edX Organization Sets a Technical Committee to Govern the Project

The Open edX project — which moved from U2's edX to Massachusetts nonprofit corporation called Center for Reimagining Learning (tCRIL) — announced this month the creation of a Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) that will provide the overall technical governance and stewardship of the initiative. This committee will have nine members: three appointed by The Center for Reimagining Learning's Board of Trustees, three by 2U Inc., and three representatives from the Open edX community. tCRIL and 2U have already appointed their members, but their names have not been disclosed yet. For the first time, the community will have direct input into project governance. "We will be moving to identify and select the community members of the TOC as quickly as practical," said MIT and Havard University's led nonprofit organization. Appointed members will serve a one-year term and won't receive any compensation. The nonprofit "will follow the consensus-seeking decision-making model and will only resolve issues by a vote in cases where consensus cannot be reached," said the document, which set the general rules and operations.   Learn more about the recent Open edX governance changes in our latest blog post: https://t.co/eJeQ76ySiv#openedx #edx #opensource #platform #edtech #elearning #technology #lms #moocs #spocs pic.twitter.com/ehnoft8iqJ — Open edX (@OpenEdX) December 7, 2021

The "Freshman Year for Free" Platform Surpasses 300,000 Learners

The ModernStates.org online learning platform announced this month that it surpassed 300,000 registered students on its program "Freshman Year for Free." In addition, fees for 50,000 credit-bearing exams were reimbursed. Launched in 2017, the New York City-based Modern States Education Alliance (“Modern States.org”) philanthropy offers a collection of free freshman-level courses that lead to college credit. The courses — which include lectures, readings, and practice questions — work as a public library of post-secondary education. There are over 40 top-quality online courses taught by professors from leading universities, such as Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, and Purdue. These classes are designed to prepare students to pass any of the College Board’s credit-bearing College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams. The non-profit organization estimates that "students have saved more than $75 million on college tuition by turning to Modern States." "The all-in average cost of public college is about $20,000 per year, so every Modern States course and CLEP exam passed can save students about $2,000 of cost," said Steve Klinsky, Modern States Founder and CEO. By passing 8-10 CLEP exams, students can save up to a full year of college costs. The NYC x Freshman Year for Free program has more than 1,200 registered students from more than 25 New York City public high schools in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens. The NYC students who receive stipends for passing courses and exams use Modern States courses to earn free college credit before high school graduation. The pass rate on CLEP exams for NYC public school students has been 85 percent to date, which is about 20 percentage points higher than the approximately 65 percent national average pass rate for all CLEP test-takers. The overall pass rate is about 75 percent for students taking Modern States courses. The philanthropy aspires to help over one million learners, saving students and taxpayers approximately $2,000 per course and over $1 billion in total. [Disclosure: These courses and the learning ecosystem, based on Open edX were produced in partnership with IBL Education, the parent company of the IBL News service].

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