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24Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Online Education Platform Raises 3 Crore Funding

Leading online curated learning platform Career Anna has raised Rs 3 crore funding structured financing from a group of angel investors. The Funding will be used to launch a series of online learning programs like Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, DevOps and other new-technology fields where demand for talent far exceeds supply. Founded in 2014, Career Anna is on the mission to empower over 500 million students and professionals across India and emerging countries, with opportunities and skills in high growth careers of their choice. The efforts aim at providing an end to end solution to the opportunities, skill and employability problem as per industry needs. With a vision to transform over 1 million lives by 2020, Career Anna has already positi...

Coursera Partners With AXA to Bring World-Class Learning Into The Workplace

19Jul By AnkitaNo Comments

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Coursera Partners With AXA to Bring World-Class Learning Into The Workplace

Coursera, a leader in online education and learning,has recently entered into a global partnership with AXA, the worldwide leader in insurance. AXA will adopt Coursera’s enterprise platform, Coursera for Business—which enables employers to draw on high-quality online learning content created by 150 top universities—to address their rapidly-evolving workforce development needs. As part of the strategic upskilling effort, Coursera will work with AXA to curate relevant content and integrate Coursera courses into existing learning paths with a goal to further equip the global workforce with the knowledge and in demand skills required to succeed in tomorrow's workplace and economy. “We’re honored to partner with a forward-thinking organization like AXA as they innovate on their Learning ...

Tata Trusts, Khan Academy enter five-year pact to develop free, high quality learning experience in India

8Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Tata Trusts, Khan Academy enter five-year pact to develop free, high quality learning experience in India

Tata Trusts, and Khan Academy, a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit education initiative founded by educationist Salman Khan, announced that they were entering into a five-year partnership to leverage the power of technology to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere in the country. The partnership will focus on developing tech-enabled, high quality and localised education resources across India by providing a personalised, mastery-based learning experience. A former hedge fund analyst, Khan, who began the initiative as a teaching platform for his cousins back in the mid-2000s, is now has 30 million registered students and has delivered over 580 million lessons and over four million exercise problems. Speaking to the media, Tata Trusts, Chairman Ratan Tata said: ...

5Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Khan Academy Launched in Hindi Version

Khan Academy, a US-based non-profit organization and an e-learning website, launched a Hindi version Thursday at the India Habitat Centre. They also published a small press release on it's Khan Academy Blog - Today we’re happy to announce that learners around the world can now access Khan Academy resources in Hindi! If you speak Hindi, you can learn math through our video lessons and practice problems mapped to India’s NCERT curriculum. Wherever you are Mumbai, Jaipur, a village in Haryana, or anywhere else around the globe, we believe you deserve the opportunity to learn at your own pace and in your own language. Khan Academy in Hindi brings us one step closer to our mission of a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere, and we thank our friends at Central Square Foundation for ...