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2U | June 23, 2020

Education technology company 2U will offer scholarships of $2,500 each to "Black, Latino, and Indigenous learners, as well as women," to attend online technical training programs. According to the company’s June 10 statement, it will provide the scholarships, totaling $3 million, to candidates demonstrating "both need and merit." 2U said the program is specifically for individuals from underrepresented groups enduring financial hardship or who lost their jobs.The ...

PRNewswire | April 23, 2020

Blackboard Inc., a leading education technology company for teaching, learning and student engagement, today announced that the U.S. federal government awarded the Software as a Service (SaaS) deployment of Blackboard Learn—the company's flagship learning management system (LMS)—FedRAMP Moderate. This authorization makes Blackboard one of the only commercial off-the-shelf SaaS providers authorized in AWS GovCloud (US) as an Educational LMS. This newest authorization follows on th...

prnewswire | October 14, 2020

To address the multiple challenges businesses face with training and skills development, Go1 and LMS365 have partnered to offer access from the LMS365 platform to the Go1 Content Hub. Through this partnership, announced today by LMS365, organizations across industries can now offer best-in-class training content to all their employees through Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online.Keeping training content up to date and relevant for changing needs can be time-consuming and costly. Add to this the...

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

edx | December 15, 2020

edX, the education movement for restless learners, today announced a significant milestone in their growth in 2020. edX grew from 81 million total global enrollments in 2019, to over 110 million global enrollments in 2020, a record 29 million increase. The number of new registered users grew even faster at 161% year-over-year, to 35 million total individual users. Individual courses offered passed 3,000. In 2020 edX saw an average of 400,000 learners per day engaged in course content. This year ...