IBL News | New York
The COVID-19 outbreak seriously hit residential teaching, while boosting online learning revenues and ventures. edX, Coursera, Udemy, and overall all learning platforms experienced remarkable growth.
Here are the most-read stories at IBL News.
edX
• edX.org Reaches 35 Million Registered Learners and 110 Million Enrollments
• edX Releases Its Latest Open Platform Named Koa
• edX Launches Its First Two MicroBachelors Degrees with WGU and NYU
• The ‘Introduction to Linux’ Course on edX.org Surpasses One Million Enrollments
• Stanford University Joins the edX Consortium Seven Years Later
Coursera
• Coursera Weighs an IPO in 2021 at a Valuation of $5 Billion
• Coursera and edX Launch Initiatives to Support Universities Impacted by the Outbreak
• Coursera Introduces Its First Fully Online Bachelor’s from an American University
Platforms
• Udemy’s Corporate Learning Division Surpasses $100M In Annual Revenue
• Canvas LMS Picks a New CEO From Outside the Educational Industry
• Simon Nelson, Original CEO of FutureLearn, Leaves His Company
MIT
• MITx Passes the Milestone of 10 Million Enrollments on Its Online Courses
• A Practical Course from MIT on edX Teaches How to Shape Your Future in the Age of AI
Harvard
• Harvard’s Professor and EdTech Visionary Robert Lue Dies at 56 From Cancer
• Harvard University’s LabXChange Platform Wins the 2020 Open edX Prize
• Harvard’s Credit-Bearing, Free Course on Mechanical Ventilators Has Attracted 170,000 Learners in Two Weeks
Transactions | Valuations
• A Startup Company Raises $16M for User Interface that Adds LMS Capabilities to Zoom
• A Cloud Guru Acquires The Linux Academy and Claims 1.5 M Learners
• Outlier.org Raises $16 Million in Funding to Expand Its Cinema-Quality Video Courses
