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How to attract new members in a budget-conscious world

Nimble AMS

Virtual events are a great alternative to in-person events today, at a time when onsite events are not possible. They also have the added benefit of providing a valuable, yet cost-effective alternative for members who would not normally be able to attend in-person events due to budget constraints. Offer virtual events.

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Stoa School wants to bring the vision of the ‘alternative MBA’ to India

TechCrunch

The Goa-based startup has raised millions to bring an unaccredited, high-quality alternative to higher business education in India amid a broader awakening of the country’s growing startup scene. While no single company has perfectly cracked the code yet, Stoa School isn’t phased. The startup’s initial raise, a $1.5

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Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely

TechCrunch

And Farrell is a former executive from another pair of major online learning companies, Trilogy and 2U. But also, Avida believes that because higher ed not already has a big market for remote learning, it represents a more significant opportunity.

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As edtech crowds up, Campuswire bets big on real-time learning

TechCrunch

Campuswire’s key monetization strategy, which was selling pro licenses for its online class software, felt threatened by alternatives. Online learning can be 100 times bigger than it is today,” Oyerinde said. Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts filled in the gap for classrooms that couldn’t afford fancy licenses.

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Kahoot drops $50M on Drops to add language learning to its gamified education stable

TechCrunch

After raising $215 million from SoftBank to double down on the surge of interest in online learning, Kahoot has made an acquisition to expand the scope of subjects that it covers. The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform.

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Pre-training generalist agents using offline reinforcement learning

Google Research AI blog

In “ Offline Q-learning on Diverse Multi-Task Data Both Scales and Generalizes ”, to be published at ICLR 2023 , we discuss how we scaled offline RL , which can be used to train value functions on previously collected static datasets, to provide such a general pre-training method.

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A Complete Guide on eLearning

Gyrus

A Complete Guide on eLearning Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems There is no denying how effective and convenient eLearning is in this digital era, especially in these unprecedented difficult times. eLearning as a whole is very attractive, as it offers an inexpensive alternative to classroom training.