Coursera Reports a Surge of 21 Million Learners Since Mid-March

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IBL News | New York Coursera.org reported yesterday an unprecedented demand on its platform since mid-March, with a surge of 21 million learners and 50 million enrollments, a 353%  and 444% increase respectively over the same period last year. In addition, thousands of colleges and universities ...

A Startup Company Raises $16M for User Interface that Adds LMS Capabilities to Zoom

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Mikel Amigot, IBL News | New York ClassEDU Inc, a startup company led by Blackboard co-founder and former CEO Michael Chasen, plans to launch at the end of October a powerful LMS interface for Zoom that adds into it live assessments, attendance tracker, proctoring tool, and gradebook, among other ...

SXSW EDU Announces that Its 2021 Conference Will Continue to Be Virtual

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IBL News | New York  Will edtech conferences return to normality in 2021 amid the pandemic? Apparently, not. South by Southwest (SXSW EDU), one of the earliest on the year calendar, announced yesterday that its 2021 edition will be virtual. It will take place on March 9-11, 2021. “Although we ...

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Artists from Gabon to Mozambique interrogate the meaning of ‘Global South’ in new online exhibition · Global Voices

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“Where is South” features 90 artists from various cities who interrogate the notion of the “Global South.” Photo courtesy of the Moleskine Foundation. The “Global South.” It's a loaded, highly political term often used to define regions of the world in opposition to each other. More than 90 young artists ...

Facebook Returns to Its Roots by Launching a Campus-Only Social Network

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IBL News | New York Facebook–which started as a college-only network–returned to its roots by launching last week a platform exclusively for students, Facebook Campus. The social media giant described the platform in a blog post as “a college-only space designed to help students connect with ...

ETS Announces It Investment Arm to Acquire EdTech Companies and Expands Its Offering to Clients

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IBL News | New York ETS–Princeton, New Jersey-based leading assessment nonprofit organization founded in 1947 and making $2.1 billion in revenue–announced this week the creation of ETS Strategic Capital. This unit will invest in educational businesses that help to expand ETS’ offering for K-12, ...

OpenStax Will Increase Its Library to 90 Free Textbooks After Receiving New Grants

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IBL News | New York OpenStax–Rice University’s OER publishing initiative–plans to vastly expand its library of free, public use textbooks after it received $12.5 million in new grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Koch ...

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U.S. News & World Report 2021 Colleges Rankings: No Changes Despite Tweaks

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IBL News | New York U.S. News & World Report released its 2021 Best Colleges rankings this week, including 1,400 institutions. The results – based on data of data from pre-pandemic 2019 – are similar to the last edition, despite the magazine explained that its methodology was revised over ...

Australian government on collision course with Facebook and Google over news revenue · Global Voices

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Facebook News – U.S. website (Author's photo of computer webpage) In what could be a world first if successful, the Australian government has drafted laws that would force tech giants Facebook and Google to negotiate with media companies over payment for linking to their news stories. The tech giants ...

A new ‘cyber defence’ system in Oman raises human rights concerns · Global Voices

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A man holds his mobile phone at a fort in Oman. Photo via Pikist, license-free photos for design. Editors note: This post was written by Khalid Ibrahim, executive director of the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes freedom of expression, association ...