Online Learners

Snowflake collaborates with Nasscom to equip 100,000 learners in India

Through this collaboration, Snowflake and Nasscom are addressing the critical skills gap by providing access to training and resources

Updated On: 21 Mar 2025 | 5:14 PM IST

Snowflake, Nasscom to train 100,000 Indians in data, AI over two years

Artificial Intelligence (AI) data cloud company Snowflake on Friday announced a collaboration with FutureSkills Prime, a digital skilling initiative by Nasscom and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to drive data and AI skills. With this, Snowflake and Nasscom expect to enrol over one lakh professional and student learners onto Snowflake's free, on-demand, entry-level data and AI skills courses over the next two years. This initiative is supported by Snowflake's global program 'One Million Minds + One Platform' aimed towards global AI upskilling. As per Nasscom, India leads in the AI skills penetration and holds first and fifth ranks globally in AI talent concentration and AI scientific publications, respectively. The current gap, however, between demand and supply is about 51 per cent, and, by 2026, the estimated demand for professionals in India is expected to exceed one million. "As companies across industries increasingly rely on data to drive AI,

Updated On: 21 Mar 2025 | 3:42 PM IST

Netflix's monetisation model may just save India's online learning apps

The Physics Wallah app has 2 million users logging in daily and spending 80 minutes

Updated On: 15 Feb 2024 | 7:20 AM IST

No question of mis-selling, sales team doesn't have rights: Byju's to NCPCR

Says that by design, every sale is unapproved until it is verified by a triple-layered audit mechanism that reaches out to the interested customer through SMS, audio and video calls

Updated On: 23 Dec 2022 | 10:09 PM IST

Indian edtech major Simplilearn trains its sights on boot camps

The Indian edtech major is gearing up to compete with global majors in the space

Updated On: 28 Nov 2022 | 9:54 PM IST

India adds highest no. of new learners globally for Coursera since Jan 2020

Coursera elevates India operations as regional hub for APAC region

Updated On: 08 Sep 2021 | 10:50 PM IST

With 9.8 mn online learners, India ranks second in global list: Coursera

The United States ranks on top with 14 million learners. Those which lag behind India include Mexico with 3.8 million students, China with 3.5 million and Brazil with 3 million

Updated On: 24 Sep 2020 | 4:44 PM IST

In a first, edtech firm upGrad launches online blended degree programmes

To offer BBA, BCA, MCA, MBA and LLM with Jamia Hamdard, O P Jindal Global University

Updated On: 16 Jun 2020 | 7:41 PM IST

Statspeak: Learning lessons

Indian online learners are continuing to report similar or even greater benefits than globally

Updated On: 02 May 2017 | 5:52 PM IST