An earthquake was felt in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 12, 2020. Photo by Chen Hualin, April 1, 2011, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0. When a major earthquake of 6.0 on the Richter scale shook coastal East Africa at around 8:15 on August 12, Tanzanians quickly took to Twitter to report on the ...
IBL News
IBL News | New York edX announced yesterday that the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) joined its Consortium. The engagement started with the launch of five online courses at edX.org–already open for enrollment: UAF is known as “America’s Arctic university. “Our first-class faculty integrate ...
IBL News
IBL News | New York Three researchers at MIT Sloan and Northeastern University developed an experimental tool called MINGLR, which supports conversations at virtual conferences and other types of online events. “Even though many people have found today’s commonly used videoconferencing systems ...
A monk using his phone at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo and caption by Remko Tanis, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This article was written by Aye Min Thant, Tech for Peace Manager at Phandeeyar, an innovation lab in Myanmar. Every person in Myanmar above the age of 10 has lived part, if not ...
IBL News
IBL News | New York Amazon’s Whole Foods Market launched this week an online learning brand, Home Ec 365, to teach young consumers household tricks, and shopping secrets, while incentivizing purchasing at the grocery chain via coupons. These life-skills courses, hosted at the Teachable platform, ...
Kibera Primary School, Nairobi, Kenya, September 18, 2012. Photo via ARC / Flickr CC BY 2.0. Editor's note: This post was co-written by Global Voices contributor Bonface Witaba and guest contributor Sri Ranjini Mei Hua, a researcher and writer from Singapore. In March, the Kenya government announced the ...
IBL News
Skillshare.com–a New York City-based veteran learning provider with a catalog of 30,000 video-courses in creative skills–announced yesterday it raised a $66 million in a Series D round lead by OMERS Growth Equity. The funding will support the creation of localized content for international users and expand the ...
Screenshots of attempts to access Apple's App Store, YouTube, and the Golos website during presidential elections in Belarus on August 9, 2020. Photo (c): Franak Viačorka. Used with permission. A loudspeaker on a stage in Minsk plays Viktor Tsoi‘s “Change,” as a man in a suit tries frantically to pull ...
IBL News
IBL News | New York The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it will invest $104 million to create four new engineering research centers, each with several American research universities collaborating as partners. Each center–which will receive ...
IBL News
IBL News | New York Are universities prepared to financially respond to the COVID-19 crisis? To evaluate colleges’ financial stress, The Hechinger Report and NBC News have created an interactive tool available to anyone: a tracker that includes key metrics such as enrollment, tuition revenue, ...
Pernille Baerendtsen