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JANUARY 2020 – NEWSLETTER #30 | Breaking news at IBL News | Noticias en Español
Higher Ed
• The U.S. Shows as the Number 1 in Education Across the World, According to the 2020 Best Countries Report
• MIT Suspends Professor Seth Lloyd Over a Detailed Report About His Ties to Epstein
• Federal Students Loan Portfolio Tops $1.51 Trillion After a 5% Increase
Corporate Training
• JetBlue’s Sponsored Education Program Has 700 Crewmembers Pursuing Undergraduate Degrees
• Visa Launches a Certification Program to Train Payment Card Disputes Professionals
• Microsoft Retires Its Professional Program and Opens a Role-Based Certification Site
2020 / 2019 Review
• JavaScript, HTML5, C# and CSS, the Most Benchmarked Skills of 2019, According to Pluralsight
• U.S. Education Technology Companies Raised $1.6 Billion in VC Funding in 2019
• 2019’s Most Popular Online Courses According to Class Central
• A Dynamic 2019 for Open edX, edX, Coursera, and Udacity: IBL’s Top-20 Headlines
• 2019 Year Review: MIT’s Epstein Scandal, Sale of Canvas LMS, 2U’s Collapse, and Pearson’s CEO’s Resignation
• IBL News Releases the 2020 Calendar
Conferences
• The AACU Conference in DC Says that Liberal Education Is Key for Employability [Video]
• The LearnLauch Conference this Month in Boston Expects 1,500 Educators and Investors
Instructure / Canvas LMS
• Instructure Will Continue Reducing Spending But Refrain From Laying Off More Employees
• Analysis: Is Instructure’s Transaction Rigged? SEC’s Statements Show a Transparent Process
• Instructure Accuses Dissident Investor Praesidium of “Opportunistic Tactics” to Derail the Transaction
• The CEO of Instructure May Reap Over $22M After the Sale of the Company
• Instructure Moves Forward with Thoma Bravo’s $2 Billion Acquisition Proposal
2U
• 2U Hires Advisers to Explore a Sale While an Activist Investor Continues to Push
2020 Upcoming Events
• Education Calendar – JAN | FEB | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY – DEC | Conferences in Latin America & Spain
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