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edsurge | March 18, 2020

With coronavirus cooping people up in their homes and disrupting businesses across every industry, buckle down for leaner times. Conserve cash. Reduce spend. That’s the message that Sequoia Capital, one of the most active venture capital firms in the business, expressed in a note to its portfolio on March 5. On the flip side, investors like Sequoia have plenty of “dry powder,” the industry parlance for cash on hand. According to PitchBook, private equity firms are sitting on $2...

Study International | March 17, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, Coursera has made its full course catalogue available for free online to every university that has had to close down. Universities need only sign up for Coursera for Campus to access 3,800 courses across 400 specialisations, straight from the online learning portal’s partner institutions. Students stand to earn up to 5,000 licences from these courses. These institutions will have access until July 31 2020, while students will have until September 30...

Common Sense | June 30, 2020

With the prospect of another distance learning school year on the horizon due to the coronavirus pandemic, a new analysis released today finds that a full 15 to 16 million public school students across the United States live in households without adequate internet access or computing devices to facilitate distance learning. The analysis, from Common Sense and Boston Consulting Group, also finds that almost 10% of public school teachers (300,000 to 400,000) are also caught in the gap, affecting t...

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Udemy | December 07, 2021

In a move to empower customers across the African continent with impactful and functional skills, Udemy, a global leader in online learning, is partnering with MultiChoice Group, Africa’s leading entertainment provider, to provide access to thousands of high-quality courses to enable MultiChoice customers to invest in their personal and professional development. The Udemy marketplace, with thousands of up-to-date courses in dozens of languages, provides the tools learners, i...