Students Prefer Some Courses be Fully Online Post-Pandemic

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IBL News | New York Nearly 73% of students say that they would prefer to take some of their courses fully online after the pandemic is gone. A total of 68% of them would choose hybrid learning. Faculty members are less in favor of online learning. Only 53% would prefer to teach fully online. 57% ...

UNESCO Releases Its Learning, Open edX-Based Platform

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IBL News | New York UNESCO — the United Nations agency for education — launched this month its Open Learning platform for online course development and dissemination of topics. Co-founded by the Government of Flanders in Belgium, the platform includes courses from the Swiss Agency for Development ...

MasterClass.com Continues Its Funding Spree Raising Another $225 Million

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IBL News | New York MasterClass.com announced this week another round of financing of $225 million in series F. The funding was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from new investors including Baillie Gifford, Balyasny Asset Management, and Eldridge together with ...

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Investors at ASU+GSV Select 200 EdTech Startups

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IBL News | New York The ASU+GSV Summit, which attracts EdTech top investors and entrepreneurs, announced this week its second annual GSV Cup Elite 200 competition for startups. It will be the world’s largest pitch competition for EdTech Startups, according to the organization. They develop what ...

Iona College in New York Acquires Concordia College’s 28-Acre Campus

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IBL News | New York Iona College, in New Rochelle, New York, announced this week it will finally acquire Concordia College’s 28-acre campus in Bronxville, New York, where it will set a school of health sciences. Iona will also introduce new student programming in the performing arts, varsity, and ...

SUNY’s Class on Solar Energy and Panel Installations Gets Over 50,000 Enrollments

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IBL News | New York Suny Online’s Solar Energy Basics course on Coursera hit this month a milestone of 50,000-plus enrollments. Launched in 2019, the course is in the top 10 enrollments of SUNY courses on the Coursera platform, out of approximately 60 courses. The course, subtitled into eight ...

The French OpenClasrooms.com Raises $80 Million for Its International Expansion

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IBL News | New York Paris, France-based educational platform OpenClassrooms.com raised $80 million in a Series C round. The financing, led by Lumos Capital C, attracted also funding from GSV, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), and Salesforce Ventures. Existing investors General Atlantic and ...

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The Linux Foundation and CNCF Issue a Free Kubernetes on Edge Training on edX.org

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IBL News | New York The Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) launched a course about cases and applications of Kubernetes at the edge through practical examples and hands-on lab exercised. Introduction to Kubernetes on Edge with K3s ...

Kahoot Acquires Clever Inc. for $500M to Expand Its Presence in the U.S.

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IBL News | New York  Norwegian EdTech game-based platform Kahoot! announced yesterday the acquisition of Clever Inc, a California-based platform widely used by U.S. K-12 schools. The final pricing will be between $435 and $500 million, depending on Clever’s performance this year. By purchasing ...

Coursera’s Stock Price Drops Despite Analysts’ Endorsement

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IBL News | New York Coursera (NYSE: COUR), which came public on March 31st, dropped on Wednesday the 5th almost 8%, despite receiving analysts’ support regarding the first-quarter report. Investors still consider that the educational company is overvalued. The online learning platform announced a ...