CONTINUING EDUCATION
YouScience | February 21, 2023
YouScience®, an educational management services provider, has recently launched its new education-to-career platform called YouScience® Brightpath, connecting technology, academic relevance, and engagement. It will help educators and students to plan for personalized individual education and career success.
This new solution will solve the skills gap crisis for employers and students, assisting learners in a successful academic and career life journey. It utilizes extensive research and a proprietary artificial intelligence engine for student engagement, innovation, personalized learning, and career enhancement. It improves diversity, equity and inclusion outcomes and graduation rates. It inspires student engagement for in-depth education, providing customized guidance for each student. It designs career and technical education CTE programs for many students at a time. It quantifies learning outcomes with industry-recognized certificates, showcasing learning relevance with education and industry. Finally, it enhances student enrollment and active participation in post-secondary education.
It helps students to discover their natural talents and understand themselves better through those talents. It introduces them to various educational opportunities in trade, vocational, and technical schools, colleges, and universities with industry certifications that align with their aptitudes and majors. This feature will increase college enrollments and pass-outs. It allows students, counselors, and school personnel to come together to select the right course. It provides certifications in more than 200 studies. It provides access to local, regional, and national employers willing to offer internships, apprenticeships, and jobs as per their choice.
Founder and CEO of YouScience, Edson Barton said, "We constantly hear from students and educators alike that there is a missing link in education. That missing link is the connection between the classroom and the real world." He added, "Our mission is to empower everyone to find intentional, individual success. YouScience® Brightpath is a first-of-its-kind solution that uses decades of proven data and advanced AI to help students discover, prove, and pursue their passion, their path, and their purpose."
(Source – Cision PR Newswire)
About YouScience
Headquartered in American Fork, Utah, YouScience, an education management company, has offering solutions for talent assessment, career development and planning, ability assessment, psychometrics, career counseling and management, and job analysis. It strives for equal educational opportunity for all learners. It helps them demonstrate and discover their interests, skills, aptitudes, and knowledge. It aligns those personality elements with purpose-driven education and career opportunities through authentic research, artificial intelligence, and industry inputs. Additionally, it connects learners, parents, educators, and counselors to support teaching and career success.
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Anthology Inc | January 24, 2023
Anthology, the largest EdTech ecosystem for education on a global scale, announced on January 23, 2023, that it would support more solutions with certifications for data security and privacy.
The company, which provides educational solutions supporting the entire learning cycle, has now expanded its ISO 27001 security certification feature. After integrating Anthology and Blackboard in October 2021, one certification would combine Blackboard Learn, Anthology Ally, Anthology Student, and Anthology Reach.
Furthermore, Anthology Encompass, Anthology Engage, Blackboard SafeAssign, and Blackboard Data attained ISO 2001 certification. Complete solutions approved by ISO 27001 are also approved for cloud service security controls and data privacy protection practices.
An independent third-party auditor has confirmed that ISO 27001 certification is recognized globally for its best international security management practices and overall security controls. Thus, this certification guarantees that Anthology's security program satisfies high security and privacy standards.
Richie Rodriguez, Chief Information Security Officer at Anthology, said, "Data security and data privacy are foundational elements of the learning journey. This expansion of certification by independent experts signals to learners, instructors and administrators that Anthology is committed to delivering the highest level of safety and security. Our team puts security and data privacy at the center of our product development and management lifecycle process, an approach that ensures our solutions will continue to provide seamless, industry-leading protection so learners can focus on achieving their goals."
(Source – Cision PR Newswire)
The mentioned products got certified for ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 as well. ISO 27017 establishes security protocols for cloud services, while ISO 27018 contains specifications for protecting personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds.
About Anthology
The company supports over 150 million learners in 80 countries as well as educational institutes worldwide. It provides approximately 60 SaaS products and services dedicated to promoting learning. In addition, it serves the global education community with dynamic, data-informed events that will assist learners and instructors in achieving their objectives.
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ONLINE EDUCATION
edX | February 08, 2023
On February 7, 2023, Southern Methodist University (SMU) and edX, a major global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., announced a new partnership to boost SMU's current offerings in data science on edX.org. SMU plans to introduce two new Professional Certificate programs focusing on data science in the spring of 2023. In addition, SMU has renewed its contract with 2U for its online Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) program through 2027.
Since commencing its partnership with 2U in 2014, SMU has provided many online learning options that have played a significant role in the institution's ongoing strategic plan. The university also introduced a credit waiver last year that allows learners with a bachelor's degree to apply for credit towards the MSDS program after completing its data science boot camp available on edX. The addition of Professional Certificate programs gives students opportunities to acquire valuable skills.
Data scientists are in high demand in the United States. As per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, data scientist employment is expected to increase by 36 percent from 2021 to 2031, resulting in approximately 13,500 job openings annually. More than 500 students have graduated from the MSDS program to date, and over 1,400 students have cleared its data science boot camp.
Andrew Hermalyn, President of Partnerships at edX, shared, "edX and SMU are mission-aligned in recognizing the need for innovative and affordable educational programs that serve the evolving needs of learners and employers." He added, "As the need for data scientists continues to grow, programs like those offered by SMU will play a key role in developing, upskilling, and reskilling talent."
(Source – PR Newswire)
About edX
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, edX is a global online learning platform designed to help all learners realize their full potential. The company has united over 40 million learners, many of the world's top-ranked universities, and industry leaders on a global online learning platform that assists learners at every stage. It provides thousands of open and free courses, professional certifications, boot camps, credit-bearing micro-credentials, and undergraduate and graduate degrees across several disciplines. The organization is ceaselessly working towards a world where every learner can access education, regardless of cost or location.
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