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Course Hero, once an edtech unicorn valued at $3.6 billion, conducts layoffs

TechCrunch

Course Hero, a tutoring business last valued by investors at $3.6 A spokesperson confirmed the layoffs, saying that “the layoffs are happening as a part of a strategic effort to set Course Hero business line up for future growth.” Launched in 2006, Course Hero was somewhat allergic to venture capital until recent.

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Why Tomago Aluminium reversed course on its cloud journey

CIO

Tomago Aluminium is an industry giant in the Asia-Pacific region, and as IT superintendent, Dennis Moncrieff is responsible for leveraging the right technologies to make the process of producing aluminum more efficient. When talking about the organization’s digital transformation journey, he describes it as a constant.

Course 290
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Charting a more direct course for Agile2022

Agile Alliance

We’ve made some changes for Agile2022 that will make charting your course easier than ever. The post Charting a more direct course for Agile2022 first appeared on Agile Alliance. We often hear from conference-goers that the amount of content can be overwhelming.

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Course Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy

Xebia

This article is the start of sharing the highlights of our course at the Master of Informatics ICT Deeltijdopleidingen – Hogeschool Utrecht This course has been handed over from EA to EA, and currently in hands of Ton Eusterbrock , René Bliekendaal and myself. The course itself is in Dutch and all material is in English.

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Does Your Company Need Help Solving These 4 Common eLearning Challenges?

If you want to know how to get ahead of the game and avoid the common mishaps in selling your eLearning courses, you’ve come to the right place! Lambda Solutions has identified the most common and costly challenges faced by eLearning providers today. These include: Overcoming the high cost of scaling.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool increases course options amidst soaring tech-skill demand

TechCrunch

Among the new courses are product marketing, design and management, data science, engineering and analysis. This is in addition to a software engineering course where students specialize in either front end and back end or cloud engineering.

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For Course Hero, venture capital was once an unobvious solution

TechCrunch

Launched in 2006, education startup Course Hero started its life away from the attention of venture capital. Then, after going another nearly six years without raising venture capital, Course Hero closed two financings in 2020. increase to Course Hero’s valuation in a little over a year. billion valuation.

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Open Source is Quickly—and Rightfully— Becoming Enterprise’s First Choice

And while its popularity has, of course, existed for decades, its accelerating growth in today’s enterprise is unmistakable. Open source is not just a community, it’s a movement. Find out why enterprises are going all-in on their open source strategy.

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The Pro’s Guide To Getting The Best ROI From Your New LMS

You need a Learning Management System when your courses and training programs need to be accessible online. Quickly build the perfect business case and easily determine which LMS will provide the best return on investment you need with this how-to eBook!

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Plan for Product Launch Success with Data and Analytics

Speaker: Piyanka Jain, President and CEO, Aryng

And of course, was the launch successful? When you launch a new feature (or an entirely new product), there are many questions that you'll need to answer. Is the feature being adopted? Do your customers like it, or does it need to be improved? Well, that all depends on how you define success.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Marketers are uniquely positioned to provide creative solutions to aid their organization in times of change and chart a course for navigating success. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department.

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Living With Technical Debt: Balancing Quality and Perfection

Speaker: Cliff Gilley, The Clever PM

And of course, the longer you take to deal with your technical debt, the more difficult it becomes to address fully. Unexpected details pop up, as small as UX that needs clean-up, and as big as a previously unforeseen flaw in the infrastructure of a project. We have to accept that nobody gets away without some technical debt.

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Serverless and Containers: How to Choose the Right Application Strategy

Speaker: Tolga Tarhan, Senior Vice President, GM AWS Services at Onica

Of course, the key as a senior leader is to understand what your organization needs, your application requirements, and to make choices that leverage the benefits of the right approach that fits the situation. We are excited to be joined by a leading expert who has helped many organizations get started on their cloud native journey.