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Barnes & Noble Education Teams Up with Unizin, a Consortium of 22 Leading Universities, to Help Advisors and Faculty Identif
Support At-Risk Students

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. company and Portland State University announced a strategic partnership to co-develop a deg
planning solution. Using insights generated by PSU’s reTHINK initiative and leveraging BNED’s analytics platform, the solution w
ultimately help more students graduate on time with better pathways to employment and provide the university with long-ter
demand planning tools.
MIT receives grant from Association of American Universities for undergraduate STEM education
Funds will be used to create a Dean’s Action Group to disseminate evidence-based teaching practices.

Ontario is investing in free online textbooks and educational resources for students to make college and university more afford
and accessible.Ontario is partnering with eCampusOntario to develop and provide free and low-cost digital textbooks to stude

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is leading the way in online course availability, and a recent fellowship will he
continue that growth.In July, Johnson gained entrance into the Association of Chief Academic Officers' Digital Fellows Program
is designed to provide university leaders nationwide with resources, information and strategies that help faculty members
understand and adopt quality digital courseware. The initiative also puts special focus on first-generation, low-income and
underrepresented minority students.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday launched two programmes to take education to the remotest corners of the country w
the help of technology.1)Swayam (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) is basically an integrated MOOCs
platform for distance education that is aimed at offering all the courses from school level (Class IX) to post-graduation level. Th
platform has been developed collaboratively by MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) and AICTE (All India Counc
Technical Education) with the help of Microsoft and is capable of hosting 2,000 courses. 2)‘Swayam Prabha,’ a platform to digit
telecast courses on higher studies on 32 DTH channels, as well as mobiles and tablets. The project, which envisages 24x7 acces
courses, will be launched by President Pranab Mukherjee at a National Convention on Digital Initiatives for Higher Education. T
courses have been designed by over 1,000 faculty members from premier institutes like IITs, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delh
University and Anna University. All courses, ranging from Class 9 to post graduation, will be available on a digital repository call
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Students will be able to earn credits on clearing a course.

HarvardX, a University-wide initiative that creates massive open online courses (MOOCs), has itself created more than 100 cou
on the platform. HarvardX has also worked to identify opportunities to leverage its online learning content in Harvard’s on-cam
classes, and has helped create more than 20 blended courses at the University using HarvardX materials.The recent beta launc
the new HarvardDART (Digital Assets for Reuse in Teaching) tool will support this important goal by offering instant access to
HarvardX content and the ability to embed individual learning assets — including videos, assessments, or text pages
Digital learning platform edX is partnering with Microsoft and General Electric to provide Massachusetts residents with subsidi
online courses and guaranteed job interviews.
DCU launches Irish language and culture open online course
The xME Institute Launches an Innovative Education Platform.This new online education platform includes CME-accredited con
focused on the role of the tissue microenvironment in disease treatment
BitDegree is the world’s first blockchain-powered online education platform that offers token scholarships and simplifies tech t
acquisition. The fact that it’s built atop of Ethereum, the new revolutionary blockchain technology, allows BitDegree to issue th
own tokens that can be exchanged amongst the users of the platform – students, sponsors, and third parties. The beauty of dig
tokens is that they can represent almost any asset that is trade-able and fungible, from commodities to loyalty points, and in th
case of BitDegree, they represent payment for a scholarship.

Jerry Brown’s call for a new approach to higher education: a fully online community college that will create a flexible, high-qua
and affordable learning option to serve our state’s working adults in an increasingly complex economy.This new independent o
campus will be unlike any other public online education platform in existence. this online college will augment the California
Community Colleges system’s Online Education Initiative which already is playing an important role in expanding the capacity o
individual colleges to offer more transfer-level courses and help greater numbers of students attain their degrees.
BrighterMonday, a job website is elevating its service offerings with an education aspect with a partnership with Educartis, an
education platform for learning institutions and students.
New online education platform being created in Azerbaijan

Baidu and Udacity announce a new collaboration between the two companies. Baidu and Udacity will collaborate in a number
areas, including, “for the first time, building courses together with both a Chinese and an American company” for the online
education platform
Peerz Academy has launched an online education platform to facilitate peer-to-peer mentoring to students across the North Ea
who require additional academic support.

A group of Southeast Dubois Schools teachers and administrators are currently exploring how Summit Learning — a free, onlin
education platform that emphasizes personalized learning — could affect the Bretzville school.The Summit Learning platform w
developed with the support of Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and its technology-infused curriculum features
individualized learning time on electronic devices, project-based learning activities, as well as built-in time for mentoring and
enrichment.

To meet the growing demand for industry-ready workforce in cloud computing, data analytics and machine learning, Google h
collaborated with Coursera, a leading US-based global online education platform, to launch a series of on-demand GCP training
courses.These courses range in skill levels from beginner to advanced and include topics like cloud fundamentals, operations,
security, data analytics and machine learning.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Extramarks Education India Pvt. Ltd. (Extramarks), India’s leading digital education compa
Tuesday joined hands to provide high quality education throughout the country. The two companies will offer Extramarks’
internationally acclaimed education content and scientifically developed learning tools through BSNL’s state-of-the-art telecom
network.

Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center announced a new FlexTime J.D. program designed to accommodate the schedule
students who might typically enter a part-time law program, but need even more flexibility for work or family obligations.This
innovative program will provide students with maximum flexibility while maintaining a rigorous course of study that will prepa
them for the realities of law practice. The program uses the latest in evidence-based teaching and learning tools and promises
both robust and rewarding for all involved

The University of Madras is revamping its distance mode education programme through the introduction of a Choice-Based Cr
System at the Institute of Distance Education from the next academic year.Candidates will be allowed to take 20% of the requir
credits through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Thus, a candidate requiring 20 credits will be allowed to take up to fiv
courses online
Nebraska’s first private college, Doane University, recently became the first institution in the state to join edX, a network of ma
open online courses — better known as MOOCs — that began as a collaborative project between MIT and Harvard.Doane has
to expand its lifestyle medicine course offerings, McKinney said. The university is also looking at how it can introduce new edu
opportunities on the platform,

A new foray into the world of online learning has been launched by the British Council, but it’s aimed at education agents rathe
than the traditional target of students.the MOOC is designed for agents and counsellors interested in starting out in, or expand
their business to, the UK. It focuses on the UK education system and preparing agents for UCAS, the UK’s college and university
admissions service, visa and immigration preparation, and pastoral care, among other areas

Australia’s Griffith and Deakin universities have co-created a research MOOC to increase efficiencies across both institutions an
increase exposure to international students as the learning landscape begins to change.Why Research Matters, launched on le
platform FutureLearn, seeks to highlight the importance of research in addressing global issues and provide students with
methodologies to identify and undertake their own research.
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e xME Institute is generating expert curricula on emerging therapies that optimize pathways within the cellular and molecular microenviron
education with additional skills. The latter is supposedly achieved via useful tips in terms of courses and programs in local and internationa

North East providing affordable access to peer mentors in a secure online learning environment. peer-to-peer tuition can be just as effective
nd molecular microenvironment.
s in local and international schools.the platform wants to provide more information for ex-high school students who wish to join colleges

tion can be just as effective as one-to-one private tuition, but more cost effective.one-to-one lessons are only 30 minutes long, with an add
who wish to join colleges

minutes long, with an additional 30 minute worksheet for the student to work through.”
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