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JUNE 2019 – NEWSLETTER #17 | More breaking news at IBL News
Open edX
• Open edX Issues Ironwood.2, a New Release of Its Platform
• UBx, University at Buffalo’s Continuing Education Open edX-Based Platform, Expands with New Courses
• A Fascinating Free Course About Beethoven’s Music from Stanford University
• The Open edX Software Ranks #36 on GitHub’s Top 100 Projects
edX
• Chatbots Gain Traction Among Businesses – Now a Course About Them on edX
• Afghanistan’s Ministry of Higher Education Creates AfghanX and Joins the edX Consortium
COURSERA
• Illinois Shuts Down its Traditional MBA and Focuses into Online’s iMBA
• What’s Next for Coursera and FutureLearn? Insights Revealed at the EMOOCS Conference
• Coursera Expands into Canada by Opening an Engineering Office
UDACITY
• Georgia Tech Will Deploy this Summer an Improved Version of its AI-Based Teacher Assistant
• Analysis: Sebastian Thrun, Creates the University of Silicon Valley and the Fourth Degree
• Sebastian Thrun Told Harvey Mudd Graduates to “Stay Curious and Always Believe in Themselves”
• Udacity Offers Two Programs to Train Cloud Engineers on AWS
INDUSTRY
• The New Standard LTI 1.3, which Allows Interoperability of Grades and Assignments, Excites the Industry
• The Good and the Bad: Choose the Best OPM, According to Dr. Chuck
2019 UPCOMING EVENTS
• Education Calendar – JUNE | JULY | AUG – DEC 2019
This newsletter about Open edX is a monthly report compiled by the IBL News staff, in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company that builds AI analytics-driven, revenue-oriented learning ecosystems, and courses with Open edX and other educational software.
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