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IBL News | New York The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unbearable devastation to schoolchildren in poor countries. A new study by UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank carried out in 150 countries, shows that children in low-and lower-middle-income countries ...
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IBL News | New York The Havard, Open edX, and edX community lost this week a key leader, Robert Lue, 56, Researcher and Professor of Biology at Harvard, Founder of LabXChange.org and HarvardX, edtech visionary and a firm advocate of open source and scientific education. Harvard University ...
Image credit: Nick Youngson via Pcipedia.org (CC BY-SA 3.0). This article was written by Farieha Aziz, co-founder of digital rights advocacy group, Bolo Bhi. In Pakistan, social media has become an informational battleground for regional and domestic politics. We have seen foreign disinformation ...
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IBL News | New York Duolingo, the popular language-learning app, announced this week it had secured $35 million in a Series H round, achieving a valuation of $2.4 billion, almost a billion dollars more than a year ago. The Pittsburgh-based company–co-founded by Hispanic immigrant Luis von Ahn–has ...
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IBL News | New York Udemy.com announced today that it raised $50 million at a $3.25 billion pre-money valuation. In February, Udemy’s valuation was $2 billion. The round, in a Series F financing, came from Learn Capital, with Goldman Sachs as sole placement agent. No plans to IPO the San ...
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IBL News | New York edX partners’ annual reunion will take place this year virtually on December 7th and 8th. Last year, the event–called edX Global Forum– was also virtual. It wasn’t celebrated as initially scheduled in Hong Kong due to political unrest in the former colony. This year, the ...
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IBL News | New York COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on international students has resulted in a drop of 43% in international enrollments in the U.S. At least 40,000 students have deferred enrollment to a future term. These findings come from a survey conducted ...
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IBL News | New York The Unizin university consortium announced last month a partnership with Blackboard to offer Ally (Blackboard Ally) to its 14 member institutions . “Blackboard will also implement learning data interoperability standards in Ally to integrate learning data to the Unizin Data ...
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IBL News | New York Half of Americans (52%) don’t believe a good job is within their reach, a 46% say that the hiring and advancement system isn’t fair. Similar shares of Americans cited a lack of employer support for training. These are the main findings of a national survey of 21,000 people ...
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IBL News | New York Half of Americans (52%) don’t believe a good job is within their reach, a 46% say that the hiring and advancement system isn’t fair. Similar shares of Americans cited a lack of employer support for training. These are the main findings of a national survey of 21,000 people ...
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