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  • Runway Issues Its Model ‘Gen-4’, Which Allows to Generate Consistent Characters

    Runway Issues Its Model ‘Gen-4’, Which Allows to Generate Consistent Characters

    IBL News | New York

    Runway released its most advanced video generator model called Gen-4 for paid and enterprise customers last week.

    The AI video tools startup claimed it can generate consistent characters, locations, and objects across scenes, maintain coherent world environments, and regenerate elements from different perspectives and positions within scenes “without the need for fine-tuning or additional training.”

    To craft a scene, users can provide images of subjects and describe the composition of the shot they want to generate.

    On the other hand, Runway AI Inc. announced that it raised $308 million in a new round of funding, which more than doubled the company’s valuation. The deal pushes Runway’s value to just over $3 billion. Private equity firm General Atlantic led the round, which closed late last year. Other investors included Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund 2.

    The company has been able to differentiate itself, inking a deal with a major Hollywood studio and earmarking millions of dollars to fund films using AI-generated video.

    Runway says that Gen-4 allows users to generate consistent characters across lighting conditions using a reference image of those characters.

    “Runway Gen-4 [also] represents a significant milestone in the ability of visual generative models to simulate real-world physics,” said the company.

    Like all video-generating models, Gen-4 was trained on many video examples to learn the patterns and generate synthetic footage.

    Runway refused to say where the training data came from, out of fear of sacrificing competitive advantage and also to avoid IP-related lawsuits.

     

  • Anthropic Launches ‘Claude for Education’ Program to Compete with OpenAI

    Anthropic Launches ‘Claude for Education’ Program to Compete with OpenAI

    IBL News | New York

    Anthropic launched a specialized version of Claude tailored for higher education institutions this week to answer OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan.

    The Claude for Education initiative seeks to equip universities with AI-enabled approaches to teaching, learning, and administration.

    With this program, Anthropic is trying to boost its revenue in the university space, where it competes with OpenAI. The company already reportedly brings in $115 million a month.

    Claude for Education includes what Anthropic calls a Learning mode. This mode is based on guiding students’ reasoning process rather than providing answers, helping them develop critical thinking skills. This feature works within Projects and saved conversations, where students can organize their work around specific assignments or topics.

    The solution will be embedded into CanvasLMS and extended with a program called Claude Campus Ambassadors, which will offer API credits for students who build projects.

    Anthropic said it collaborates with Northeastern University, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Champlain College.

    The AI start-up summarized its offer in these terms:

    • “Students can draft literature reviews with proper citations, work through calculus problems with step-by-step guidance, and get feedback on thesis statements before final submission.
    • Faculty can create rubrics aligned to specific learning outcomes, provide individualized feedback on student essays efficiently, and generate chemistry equations with varying difficulty levels.
    • Administrative staff can analyze enrollment trends across departments, automate repetitive email responses to common inquiries, and convert dense policy documents into accessible FAQ formats—all from a familiar chat interface with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls.” 
  • OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli Style Generated Images Flood Social Media with Memes

    OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli Style Generated Images Flood Social Media with Memes

    IBL News | New York

    AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli—the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away”—are flooding social media, forcing OpenAI to put a rate limit on image generation requests, according to CEO Sam Altman.

    “It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT, but our GPUs are melting,” he posted on X today.

    The newly improved image generation of GPT-4o, released this week, is resulting in creations that are more realistic than before, and even users can take them in any number of directions.

    Usually, users upload existing images and pictures into ChatGPT and ask the chatbot to recreate them in new styles. OpenAI’s and Google’s latest tools make it easier than ever to re-create the styles of copyrighted works — simply by typing a text prompt.

  • Mistral Releases an Open Source Model that Outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini

    Mistral Releases an Open Source Model that Outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini

    IBL News | New York

    Paris–based Mistral AI unveiled Mistral Small 3.1, a new multimodal open-source model. According to the company, it is “the best model in its weight class ” and “outperforms comparable models like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini. “

    Released under an Apache 2.0 license, Mistral Small 3.1 has an expanded context window of up to 128k tokens and a delivery inference speed of 150 tokens per second.

    Experts say that Mistral Small 3 is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B and replaces opaque proprietary models like GPT4o-mini.

    Mistral Small 3 can be fine-tuned to specialize in specific domains, creating highly accurate experts. This is particularly useful in fields like legal advice, medical diagnostics, and technical support, where domain-specific knowledge is essential.

    This model sets the stage for increased competition in a market dominated by U.S. tech giants. Mistral’s open-source approach highlights a growing divide in the AI industry between closed, proprietary systems and open, accessible alternatives.

    After raising $1.04 billion, founded in 2023 by former researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta, Mistral AI has rapidly established itself as Europe’s leading AI startup, with a valuation of approximately $6 billion. While impressive for a European startup, this valuation remains a fraction of OpenAI’s reported $80 billion.

    Mistral Small 3 Human Evals

    Mistral Small 3.1 joins the company’s rapidly expanding suite of AI products.

    Earlier this month, the company introduced Mistral OCR, an optical character recognition API that converts PDF documents into AI-ready Markdown files. This addresses a critical need for enterprises seeking to make document repositories accessible to AI systems.

    These specialized tools complement Mistral’s broader portfolio, which includes Mistral Large 2 (their flagship large language model), Pixtral (for multimodal applications), Codestral (for code generation), and “Les Ministraux,” a family of models optimized for edge devices.

  • Google Gemini’s Latest Feature: Canvas, an Interactive Space for Refining Documents and Code

    Google Gemini’s Latest Feature: Canvas, an Interactive Space for Refining Documents and Code

    IBL News | New York

    Google added this week a dedicated workspace to its Gemini chatbot called Canvas, an identical name used by OpenAI for the same feature – and similar to Anthropic’s Artifacts.

    It’s an interactive space where users can refine documents, create and debug code, and share writing and coding projects while using Gemini’s feedback to suggest edits and adjust the tone, length, or formatting.

    Canvas also streamlines the process of transforming coding ideas into working prototypes for web apps, Python scripts, games, simulations, and other interactive apps.

    It can also generate and preview HTML/React code and other web app prototypes to visualize the design, such as a website’s email subscription form.

    This feature works by selecting Canvas in the prompt bar and start creating. Google created a dedicated website.

    Gemini’s Canvas includes the Audio Overview of NotebookLM, which went viral last year. It transforms users’ files into realistic-sounding podcast-style discussions between two AI hosts, with audio summaries of documents, web pages, and other sources.

    Uploading a document via the prompt bar triggers the Audio Overview shortcut. Once a summary is generated, it can be downloaded or shared via the Gemini app on the web or mobile.

    Gemini Canvas

  • Open edX & Learning Platforms Newsletter | January – April 2023: Axim Collaborative, 2U edX, Coursera, Canvas LMS, Top Hat…

    Open edX & Learning Platforms Newsletter | January – April 2023: Axim Collaborative, 2U edX, Coursera, Canvas LMS, Top Hat…

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    JANUARY – APRIL 2023 – NEWSLETTER #48  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

     

    Open edX 

    • The Open edX Platform Reaches 4,5K Deployments, with 70K Courses, and 77M Users

    • TCRIL Changes Its Name To Axim Collaborative and Names a CEO

    • Open edX Released the Fifteenth Version of Its Software Platform

    • Open edX Introduced Improvements to Its Maple and Nutmeg Releases

     

    2U edX 

    • 2U Sues U.S. Department of Education Over “New Regulation that Overreaches Its Authority”

    • 2U  Secures New Capital and Refinances Its Debt

    • Selected the Ten Top Educators and Courses in MOOCs According to the edX Platform

     

    Learning Platforms

    • Canvas LMS Expands Its Ecosystem by Acquiring LearnPlatform

    • Course Hero Appoints New CEO; Co-Founder Becomes CEO of New Parent Company, Learneo

    • Communication Skills Remain Vital, Says Coursera’s Job Skills Report

    • Top Hat Acquired New York-based STEM Education Startup Aktiv Learning

    • YouTube Will Launch a Feature Bringing Structured Learning Experiences into Its Channels

     

    Higher Ed

    • Many Private Colleges React to the Decline in Enrollment by Cutting Tuition in Half

    • The SUNY System Saw a Huge Success with Its Two-Week Fee-Waiver Initiative

    • NYU Will Invest $1 Billion Into Its Engineering School in Brooklyn, NY

    • John King, Former Education Secretary Named SUNY’s 15th Chancellor

     

    2023 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

    • GSV Venture Capital Firm Presents Its Selection of 150 Top Learning Start-Ups for 2023

    • Education Calendar 2023  – APRIL | MAY | JUNE | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

     

    This newsletter was created in collaboration with IBL Education, a New York City-based company specializing in AI-driven analytics and skills-learning platforms. We also film and produce courses for universities and business organizations. Read the latest IBL Newsletter   |  Archive of Open edX Newsletters

  • Special Report: The AI Revolution, A Wild 2023 | Newsletter #54 | January – April 2023

    Special Report: The AI Revolution, A Wild 2023 | Newsletter #54 | January – April 2023

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    AI’s WILD YEAR | DECEMBER 2022 – APRIL 2023 – NEWSLETTER #54

     

    April 2023

    • AWS Will Sell Access to Multiple LLMs Through a New Service Called ‘Amazon Bedrock’

    • Databrick Releases an Improved Open Source LLM Licensed For Reuse and Commercial Use

    • The AI Apps Associated Themselves with ChatGPT Generated Hefty Revenue

    • Cerebras Releases as Open Source Seven Large LLMs with 13 Billion Parameters

    • International Baccalaureate Assessment System Allows Students to Use ChatGPT

    • Bloomberg Introduces a 50-Billion Parameter LLM Built For Finance

    • The OpenAI’s CEO Envisions a Universal Income Society to Compensate for Jobs Replaced by AI

    • Artificial Intelligence Enters a New Phase of Corporate Dominance

    • Udacity Incorporates an OpenAI Provided Chatbot

    • Italy Bans ChatGPT While Elon Musk and 1,100 Signatories Call to a Pause on AI [Open Letter]


    March 2023

    • Generative AI Will Impact Labor Market and Have Notable Economic, Social, and Policy Implications

    • Adobe Unveils Firefly, a Family of Creative Generative AI Models Coming to Its Products

    • Quora Released its Poe Chatbot, A Tool That Includes GPT-4, Claude and ChatGPT

    • Databricks Launches Dolly, an Open Sourced LLM Clone of Stanford’s Alpaca Model

    • Microsoft Search Engine Bing Adds DALL-E’s Image AI Creator

    • Google Provides Limited Access to Bard, Its “Early Experiment Chatbot”

    • OpenAI Starts to Roll Out Plugins in ChatGPT

    • Canva Unveils New AI-Powered Design Tools

    • GitHub Launches an Upgraded AI Assistant for Developers, Copilot X, With GPT-4

    • Anthropic Launched ‘Claude’ A More Ethical Bot That Competes With ChatGPT

    • Google Shows What AI-Embedded Writing Will Look Like in Gmail and Google Docs

    • Microsoft Corp Embeds Generative AI Into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams

    • Duolingo and Khan Academy Are Integrating the GPT-4 Model Into Their Offer

    • Bing, Microsoft’s Search Engine, Crossed 100 Million Daily Active Users

    • Stripe Integrates OpenAI’s New GPT-4 AI Into Its Digital Payment Process

    • OpenAI Introduced Its GPT-4 Model That Accepts Image and Text Inputs

    • OpenAI Positions Itself as a Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit Business

    • Microsoft Made ChatGPT Available On Its Azure OpenAI Service

    • DuckDuckGo Unveils a Feature that Summarizes Information Using Generative AI

    • Grammarly Announces a Generative AI Writing Assistant

    • Microsoft Releases an AI Chatbot for Marketers, Customer Reps, and Sales People

    • Salesforce Issues a ChatGPT-Style AI Agent For Writing Marketing Content

    • Israeli Start-Up D-ID’s API Enables Face-to-Face Chats with AI

    • OpenAI Expects Revenue of $200M In 2023, After Making $30M Last Year

    • Character.ai, an Alternative to ChatGPT, Valued at $1 Billion

    • OpenAI Will Offer A Dedicated ChatGPT Platform for Businesses

    • OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT. Quizlet and Shopify, Among the Early Adopters

    • Microsoft Releases a Windows 11 Update that Includes AI-Powered Bing Chatbot


    February 2023

    • Snapchat Introduces My AI, a ChatGPT-Powered Artificial Intelligence Bot Into Its App

    • JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs Block Access to ChatGPT

    • Microsoft Released the Bing and Edge Mobile Apps Powered by ChatGPT

    • Meta Released LLaMA, an Open Large Language Model with 65-Billion-Parameters

    • AWS Partners With Hugging Face, an AI Startup Rival to ChatGPT Working on Open Source Models

    • The Most Expensive School in the World, Swiss Rosenberg, Teaches How to Use ChatGPT

    • GitHub Copilot, which Suggests Code in Real-Time through Generative AI, Launches Its Business Offer

    • A Rush of Early Adopters In the Corporate World to Avoid Falling Behind on Generative AI

    • The Domain AI.com Now Takes Users to ChatGPT

    • Open AI: “Aligning AI Systems with Human Values Is a Top Priority for Our Company”

    • Opera Will Release a New Browser with Built-In Access to ChatGPT and Other AI Services

    • “Students Need to Learn How to Prompt an AI, and Evaluate Its Accuracy and Originality”

    • Over 1 Million People Signed Up for the Bing Waitlist; Microsoft Shows Viva Sales Emails

    • “ChatGPT is High Tech Plagiarism; It Undermines Education,” Says Noam Chomsky

    • Microsoft Reaches a $2 Trillion Market Cap Helped with the Rise of ChatGPT

    • Microsoft Presented Its New Bing Search, Powered by ChatGPT

    • Google Announces ‘Bard’, a Testing, ChatGPT-Style AI Service

    • ChatGPT and Upcoming AI Bots Will Make Jobs Obsolete in Several Industries

    • Top Contenders Challenge ChatGPT. Google Invests $300M In Anthropic

    • ChatGPT Surpasses 100 Million Users in January, with 13 Million Daily Visitors

    • Microsoft Launches Teams Premium with Features Powered by ChatGPT

    • OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Plus, a $20/Month Premium Service

    • OpenAI Issues a Free Tool to Help Determine If Any Text Is Written by ChatGPT


    January 2023

    • China’s Baidu Will Soon Launch an AI Platform Similar to ChatGPT

    • MusicML, a Research Project by Google, Generates Songs From Text Descriptions

    • An AI Application Allows Asking Questions and Gain Insights About Documents

    • BuzzFeed Will Use ChatGPT to Help Generate Online Content and Quizzes

    • “Everybody is Cheating,” Says a Wharton Professor; He Has Adopted an AI Policy

    • ChatGPT Passes Law School Exam Signaling the Risk of Widespread Cheating

    • ChatGPT Alternatives Start to Emerge Throughout the Internet

    • Microsoft Announces an Investment of $10 Billion in OpenAI to Advance ChatGPT Technology

    • ChatGPT Passes an MBA Exam at UPenn’s Wharton

    • Augmenting GTP-3 with Additional Information Prompts New Coding Businesses

    • ChatGPT and Its Consequences on Work and Life Are the Talk of the Business Leaders in Davos This Year

    • OpenAI CEO Refuses to Confirm If Chat GPT—4 Will Be Released This Year [Video]

    • Coursera Will Integrate ChatGPT into Its Course Catalog This Year [Video]

    • Microsoft CEO Says at Davos that the Company Plans to Flood its Products with Chat GPT [Video]

    • Microsoft Starts Offering Access to Azure OpenAI [Video]

    • Microsoft Will Make OpenAI’s Language Models Available on Its Azure Cloud Services

    • Chat GPT ‘At Capacity’ Due to Its Massive Popularity

    • ChatGPT Prepares a Paid Version to Monetize Its Wildly Successful Tool

    • Language Models – Based Tools Will Radically Change Education

    • Microsoft Might Invest $10 Billion in OpenAI’s ChatGPT

    • Quora Tests Its Own Chatbot, Which Will Be Connected to More AI Agents

    • Princeton Student Launches an App that Detects Plagiarism from ChatGPT

    • Microsoft Works to Incorporate ChatGPT Into Its Bing Search Service

    • An AI Chatbot Promises to Help You to Become the Best Version of Yourself

    • ChatGPT-4, the Fined Tuned Version of ChatGPT-3, Might Prompt a Major Shift


    December 2022

    • Cheating on Essays in Higher Education through ChatGPT Alarms Academia

    • The University of Phoenix Makes Its Chatbot More Engaging After Three Years of Experience

    • The Year of ChatGPT and the Large Language Models

    • Image Generator Lensa AI App Goes Viral with Its Magic Selfies Feature

    • AI Adoption Plateaus and Talent Shortages Threaten the Shift

    • The Release of OpenAI Keeps Educators and Professionals Processing the Implications

    • Cutting-Edge AI Chatbot Attracts Over a Million People In One Week

    • OpenAI Releases ChatGPT, an Advanced Text-Generating AI


    2023 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

    • Education Calendar 2023  – APRIL | MAY | JUNE | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

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  • Open edX & Learning Platforms Newsletter | October – December 2022: Open edX, 2U, Coursera, Doulingo, LEGO, MasterClass.com…

    Open edX & Learning Platforms Newsletter | October – December 2022: Open edX, 2U, Coursera, Doulingo, LEGO, MasterClass.com…

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    OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2022 – NEWSLETTER #47  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

     

    Open edX

    • The 2023 Open edX Conference Will Take Place March 28 – 31 at MIT

     

    2U / edX Platform

    • 2U Kept Flat Revenue in the Third Quarter of 2022

    • 2U Launches New Boot Camps Under the edX Brand, Retiring the Trilogy Name

    • The London School of Economics Launches a Stackable Pathway to Degrees in Mathematics and Statistics on edX

    • Cognizant Offers Five Train-To-Hire Courses on Java through edX.org

    • An edX Course Created as Peace Project Between Israel’s Jewish and Arab Cultures Makes a Global Impact

     

    Coursera

    • Coursera and SAP Release a Technology Consultant Professional Certificate

    • Coursera Improves Its Note-Taking Technology to Help Learners to Increase Retention

    • Georgetown and Coursera Offer the First Fully Online Liberal Arts Degree

    • Coursera Announces Layoffs Due to Slower Growth Rate

    • Coursera Expands Its Micro-Learning Approach by Adding Thousands of 5-10 Min Videos

     

    Learning Platforms: Transactions

    • LEGO Purchases Education-Technology Firm BrainPOP for $875 Million

    • Genius Group Acquires an American Documentary Film Company to Provide High-Quality Educational Videos

    • Duolingo Purchases the Animation Studio that Works on Its Brand

    • Zovio Sells Fullstack Academy and Liquidates the Company

    • The Owner of Inside Higher Ed Acquires a Leading Student Recruitment Events Firm

    • Anthology Sells the Blackboard K-12 Division

    • Investment Company Thoma Bravo Sells Frontline Education for $3.7 Billion

    • IXL Learning Purchased Emmersion, a Developer of AI-Powered Language Assessments

    • Scholastic Acquired the A2i System for Literacy Instructional Assessment

    • Testing and Assessment Prometric Acquires Finetune Learning

     

    Learning Platforms: Functionalities

    • Zoom Will Soon Be Installed in Tesla Cars

    • The Indian Giant BYJU’S Hires Leo Messi As Its Global Ambassador

    • D2L Issues an Interactive Content Creation Tool With Templates and Themes

    • MasterClass.com Issues a Course with Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice

     

    Funding

    • EdTech Will Expand from K–12 and Higher Ed to Lifelong Learning Economy

    • A British Platform that Teaches Cybersecurity with Gamification Attracts Big Funding

     

    YouTube

    • YouTube Will Launch a @username Format to Boost User Engagement

    • YouTube Will Allow Course Creators to Charge for their Content

     

    Adobe, Figma

    • Figma’s CEO Dylan Field Pocketed One Billion More than Initially Announced by Adobe

    • Adobe’s Stock Continues to Fall as the Market Signals Its Concern About the Figma Deal

    • Figma’s $20 Billion Acquisition by Adobe Causes Concern in the Creative Community

     

    2022 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

    • Education Calendar 2022  – NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

     

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  • Online Learning Newsletter | October – December 2022: Trends, AI, ML, Analytics, Universities, Higher Ed, Enterprise…

    Online Learning Newsletter | October – December 2022: Trends, AI, ML, Analytics, Universities, Higher Ed, Enterprise…

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    OCTOBER – DECEMBER 2022 – NEWSLETTER #53  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

     

    Trends

    • Pandemic-Disrupted Teaching and Learning Effects Will Continue for Decades, Stanford Says

    • Higher Ed Experts Craft Their Vision to Evolve into a Hybrid Learning Scenario

    • “Career Readiness and Skill Competency Are Key Factors to Measure Student Success”

    • Learners Prefer the “Anytime-Anyplace” Approach Along with Blended Technology

    • Online Learning Is Now Seen in Positive View Among Learners, Wiley Says

    • Around 771 Million People Lack Basic Literacy Skills Today

    • Confidence In the Teaching Profession Continues to Decline in the U.S.

    • Students Say that College Is Worth What They Pay Despite the Financial Struggle

     

    AI, ML, Analytics

    • National Louis University Shared Data Model Used For Student Onboarding, Academics, and Support

    • Key Research on Data Analytics Shows How AI/ML Will Shape the University of the Future

    • Most Higher Ed CIOs Are Ready to Invest More in Analytics, Says Gartner

    • “We Need More From Technology,” Says Educause While Presenting the 2022 Top 10 Issues

    • AI Language Model GPT-3 Arrives into Higher Education

    • 74% of Users Prefer AI Chatbots for Answers to Simple Questions

    • 85% of Data is Unstructured and Not Ready for AI Use, Industry Experts Say

    • Data Mismanagement Jeopardizes the AI Achievement, Says an MIT Report

     

    Universities

    • CUNY Unveils a $1.6B Plan to Build a Science Park and Research Campus in Manhattan

    • A Duke Administrator and Cell Biologist Researcher Named MIT’s 18th President

    • Arizona State University Opens a Lab that Will Create a Metaverse with Zoom

    • UCLA Acquires Marymount California University’s Campuses for $80 Million

    • Stanford Law School Launches Controversial Income-Share Agreements as a Pilot Program

    • Harvard Business School Will Offer Its Two-Year MBA Program for Free to 200 Students

     

    Higher Ed

    • Students Name the Best Colleges in the U.S. in Princeton Review’s Annual Survey

    • U.S. Colleges and Universities Saw an Increase of 80% in International Student Enrollment

    • Stanford, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern Law Schools Join the Exodus from U.S. News Rankings

    • Harvard, Yale, and Berkeley Criticize U.S. News Rankings Methodology and Decide Not to Participate

     

    Enterprise

    • Amazon Will Invest $5,250 Per Year For Each Delivery Partner By Providing Educational Programs

    • IBM Teams with 20 Black Universities to Address the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

    • Oracle Launches a Cloud Infrastructure that Allows ISVs to Run their Own Services

     

    Biden Administration

    • The FTC Sues Chegg for Exposing Millions of Users’ Social Security Numbers and Other Key Data

    • The Biden Administration Launches the Official Application for the Student Debt Relief

    • Six Republican-Led States Sue Biden Administration Over Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

    • President Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Plan Will Cost $400 Billion

    • Fintech Donation Start-Up Give Campus Raises Massive Funding

     

    Conferences

    • The OLC Conference Awarded Twelve Educators for Innovation in Online Learning

    • The OLC Accelerate 2022 Conference Posts Its Program

    • Educause Recognized Five Top Educators for Their Accomplishments in Higher Ed IT

     

    2022 Events | All of the Key Conferences Listed!

    • Education Calendar 2022  – NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | Conferences in Latin America & Spain

     

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  • Open edX & Learning Platforms Newsletter | August – September 2022: Open edX, 2U, Coursera, Degreed, Litmos, Canvas LMS…

    Open edX & Learning Platforms Newsletter | August – September 2022: Open edX, 2U, Coursera, Degreed, Litmos, Canvas LMS…

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    AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2022 – NEWSLETTER #46  |  Breaking news at IBL News  |  Noticias en Español

     

    Open edX

    • The tCRIL Organization Releases Nutmeg, the 14th Version of the Open edX Platform

    • Amgen Foundation Will Invest $30M on Open edX-Based LabXchange Platform

     

    2U / edX Platform

    • 2U Offers edX Universities a New Revenue Sharing Program

    • 2U Inc. Receives an Offer of $1 Billion with a Premium of 50%

    • 2U / edX Offers Scholarships for Cybersecurity and Data Analytics Boot Camps in Tulsa

    • 2U Presents Quarter Results While Transitions to Operate Under the edX Brand

    • EdX Announces Two Career Courses with META on Augmented Reality

     

    Coursera

    • Coursera Slightly Improved Its Financial Results for the Second Quarter of 2022

    • Meta Delivers Five New Certificate Programs in Coursera.org in Software Engineering

    • Skillsoft Will Now Include on Its Platform the Coursera Enterprise Content

     

    Learning Platforms: Transactions

    • SAP Litmos Training Platform Sold to a Private Equity Firm

    • Varsity Tutors Acquires Codeverse, a Platform that Teaches Kids to Code

    • Degreed Buys Its Former CEO’s New Company and Puts Him to Lead a New Strategy

    • Class.com Completes the Acquisition of Blackboard Collaborate

     

    Learning Platforms: Results and VC

    • Edmodo.com Will Shut Down Its Platform and Service on September 22

    • Canvas LMS Reported a Revenue Increase of 22% During the Second Quarter

    • Docebo Reported an Increase in Sales and Profits in the Second Quarter

    • Territorium Raised $4.4 Million In a Seed Round Led by Cometa Investment

    • German Learning Platform CoachHub Raises Another $200 Million

     

    Learning Platforms: Functionalities

    • Learning Platform Kahoot! Issues an Add-On for Google Classroom

    • Instructure, the Maker of Canvas LMS, Announces New Features and Partnerships

    • Engageli Announces that Its Learning Platform Will Expand into the L&D Market

     

    Initiatives

    • OpenStax Will Make Available for Free the Bestselling Organic Chemistry Textbook

    • Harvard Business School Will Offer Its Two-Year MBA Program for Free to 200 Students

     

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