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Online learning marketplace Udemy is raising up to $100M at a $3.32B valuation

TechCrunch

Online education has been one of the hotspots in the tech world this year, as people turn to e-learning tools to fill in the gaps variously arising from closed schools, closed offices, social distancing and more time on our hands at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

TechCrunch

While collaborating with product developers, Dang and Wang saw that while product developers wanted to use AI, they didn’t have the right tools in which to do it without relying on data scientists. “We They didn’t work with machine learning extensively, so we decided to build tools for technical non-experts.

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

TechCrunch

million in Series A funding led by Greylock with participation from the Factory and angel investors, allows a user to specify an AI system as a file that tells the platform what the user wants (e.g., “Machine learning projects today usually take six months to a year at most organizations we’ve worked with. .

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Unlocking the Power of APIs: The SKY is the Limit!

sgEngage

Integrations Partnerships Add-ons Connectors Extensions Learning tools API endpoints Each of these serves a different purpose and it is essential that your school software has some of these that are rock solid and can seamlessly become part your experience. What am I talking about?

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Best Practices for Protecting Your K–12 School from Cybersecurity Threats

sgEngage

Ransomware attacks happen when a malicious actor gets control of your files and encrypts them. Systems that hold student information should be HIPAA, LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability), and OneRoster 1.1 Use a secure portal instead of email for invoices and other confidential or financial interactions whenever possible.

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Merlyn Mind emerges from stealth with $29M and a hardware and software solution to help teachers with tech

TechCrunch

We’ve chronicled, in great detail, the many layers of technology, services and solutions that have been wrapped around the world of education in recent years — and especially in the last year, which became a high watermark for digital learning tools because of COVID-19.

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Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the learning tools I created for the workshop was an information overload self-assessment, a simple quiz with yes/no questions that let folks diagnose the degree of information overload they were feeling. Are you afraid to delete email or old files because you're afraid you might just need it someday?Are

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