eLearning, EdTech, Talent Development

Trilogy Education, the coding school that has made a name for itself by collaborating with universities, is going to Harvard. On December 4, Trilogy and the Harvard Extension School (HES) announced The Coding Boot Camp at Harvard Extension School. The goal is to offer an intensive web development program that will teach both front-end and back-end skills to Boston-area residents.

December 10 marks a big milestone for one of the most widely used educational resources in the world. On this day in 1768, publication began in Edinburgh Scotland of the first version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A full 225 years after, (25 years ago today), the encyclopedia first went digital, hopping on the eb.com universal resource location of the World Wide Web.

Since Duolingo launched in 2011, it has been gaining fans as a fun and free way to learn languages such as English, French, Spanish, German, and Mandarin. More recently, however, the platform has started to add languages that are less widely spoken, including two native languages: the Navajo language, Diné, and the Hawaiian language, Ōlelo Hawaiʻi.

Since the online study platform Quizlet launched in 2007, the company attracted users by offering it for free. That open access drew millions to the platform. In October, the site announced they had cleared 50 million active monthly users. On Tuesday, the company debuted a new feature: Quizlet Premium Content.