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JUNE 2018 – NEWSLETTER #6
SOFTWARE
• Prof. Lorena Barba implemented an effective flipped learning experience with Jupyter
• IBL Education launched a free, easy-to-handle, production-ready version of Open edX, available on AWS’ AMI marketplace
• Big Blue Button improved its integration on the Open edX platform
2018 OPEN EDX CONFERENCE
• A successful Open edX conference in Montréal. The most interesting tweets
• Agarwal: We expect to triple our global reach to 100M learners in 2022
• Videos and slides of the 2018 Open edX Conference
• Zvi Galil shared insights on Georgia Tech’s online CS Master’s (Video Talk)
• “MOOCs are not addressing the problems of education,” said Columbia’s researcher Fiona Hollands
• Jupyter-based courses in Open edX: Authoring and Grading with notebooks
COURSES
• Microsoft has developed 180+ courses on edX.org, with 2.6M learners
• Jeb Bush advocated at CNBC the Open edX-based ‘Freshman Year For Free Program’
• Duke encouraged its community to use Open edX for internal training
• McKinsey Academy refocused his course offering targeting pre-IPO companies
STRATEGY
• Harvard University will launch LabXchange, an Open edX Virtual Lab platform for biology students
• Michigan Online, a new one-stop portal for all of the MOOCs of U-M
• edX formulated its vision for adaptive learning
• A million dollars may be the price tag to deploy and maintain an Open edX platform, said a provider
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