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

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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. And companies are looking outside of their primary market to hire talent.

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UBITS snags $25M to create ‘the Netflix for corporate training’ in LatAm

TechCrunch

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” They applied to Y Combinator, raised a seed round and went back to Colombia to create a program and courses that launched in January 2019. “In

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Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform

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The company, founded in 2015 by Charles Lee and Harley Trung, who previously worked as software engineers, pivoted from offline to online in early 2020 to bring high-quality technical training to everyone, everywhere. Apple expands its free coding courses and materials for educators. “Coding is the future. pre-seed round.

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Cybrary secures $25M to grow its platform for cybersecurity training

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But some firms have escaped unscathed, like cybersecurity training platform Cybrary , which today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C funding round. Cybersecurity professionals at every stage of their careers need an affordable and accessible training platform to arm them with the skills and confidence to respond to threats.”

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O’Reilly’s top 20 live online training courses of 2020

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With the uptick in virtual conferencing, remote work, and, for some, reentering the job market, new technology adoption was accelerated, driving the workforce to build new skills. Since the onset of the pandemic, online courses and programs have seen dramatic spikes in consumption and enrollment, and O’Reilly has been no different.

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Connected strength-training startup Vitruvian eyes US with $15M raise

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There’s been some leveling off of late, of course. Perth-based startup Vitruvian has made a name for itself in the Australian market. The company’s at-home strength-training system sports resistance-based weights up to ~440 pounds. Few consumer technologies were better positioned to ride the pandemic to new heights.

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Singapore’s Skills Union wants to close the skills gap via live video training

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Online professional training isn’t new; it’s not uncommon to see medium-sized startups allocate several thousand dollars to individual employees each year to further their “personal development.” The problem is that the completion rate for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, teeters around only 5-15%.

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