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What to Know About SQL and How to Try it Out

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SQL is incredibly popular in several industries, such as finance, music, data analysis, web development, and social media, making it really useful. . We recommend Codecademy’s “Learn SQL” course or Coursera’s “Introduction to Structured Query Language” course.

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Riipen Raises $3.75 Million to Unite College Students and Employers Via Course Projects

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Coursera raised $103 million this year and became a unicorn, and Lambda School raised $30 million. Projects on the platform can range from weeks to a semester long, with student presentations to businesses done in person or remotely. Individual educators and students can use the platform for free.

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Deals and More Deals: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2019

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industry, eclipsing last year’s tally. Some deals have given birth to new unicorns, the industry parlance for private businesses valued at over $1 billion. Thanks to a $157 million fundraise, the edtech industry has given birth to its third U.S. Coursera Pushes into Unicorn Status After Raising $103 Million by Jeffrey R.

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Employer Credentials and Community Colleges: A Look Behind Google’s IT Support Certificate Program

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These tech jobs cut across industry sectors and many of them can be characterized as “ middle-skill ”—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year college degree. As Google’s initiative demonstrates, it is a false dichotomy to pit industry-based credentials against academic learning.

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Udacity VP of Learning: ‘We Never Start Anything Out of Academic Interest’

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While other MOOC providers such as Coursera have recently added more of these kinds of degree programs to their platform, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun said his company has no plans to expand its offerings in coordination with other universities. Udacity focuses on industry,” Thrun said.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

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If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. People who chose to work in a different industry as to what they have studied in college are also common now.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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