Online Courses | Pixr8 News

16Sep By PriyankaNo Comments

FUNDING

Edtech startup AttainU raises angel funding

Bengaluru, 16th September 2019: AttainU, a Bengaluru based edtech startup providing high-quality, live online courses as college alternative to individuals has raised angel funding from investors including Shailesh Rao ex-Google India Head, Nikhil Rungta ex-Intuit India Head, Anil Gelra Founder, SnapMint and Manish Kumar Founder, KredX and LetsVenture. The company plans to use the funding to further strengthen faculty, development of courses, counselling teams and build a semi-automated platform to cater to the huge inbound student demand they are receiving. Founded by Divyam Goel and Vaibhav Bajpai in 2018, AttainU currently offers full-time, online 7-month long Software Engineering courses for users looking to get into Software Engineering careers. AttainU provides career cou...

Google Collaborate With Coursera to Launch Online IT Certification Courses

Tech giant Google and online education leader Coursera today announced the launch of a certificate course aimed at filling entry-level IT support jobs globally. The Google IT Support Professional Certificate, developed by subject-matter experts at Google and offered exclusively on Coursera, will help anyone with no prior experience to be ready for an entry-level IT support job in 8 to 12 months. The programme will allow learners to share their information with a host of top companies looking to hire entry-level support professionals, including Bank of America, Walmart, Sprint, GE Digital, PNC Bank, Infosys, TEKSystems, UPMC, and, of course, Google. "Finding qualified IT personnel is a challenge many companies face. With 150,000 open roles in IT support, it is one of the fastest...

Indian Govt. Aim To Offer 2000 Free Online Courses Through its Program Swayam

In a bid to promote affordable education, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the government aims to offer about 2,000 online courses within one year through Swayam an indigenously developed platform. "Currently, 380 courses are offered through this platform and this will be enhanced to 2,000 courses in one year", he said after inauguration of a week-long Teachers Workshop at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here. About 60,000 students have already completed their courses through this affordable platform launched last year. It makes knowledge available anytime anywhere like ATM offers cash, the minister said, adding that it can be termed ATL - Anytime Learning. The platform provides high quality education on various subjects from school level (...