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Microsoft Takes a Bite Out of BrightBytes, Acquiring Its DataSense Platform and Team

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That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes. It also offers a rostering solution that expedites how student and educator accounts for third-party edtech applications are created and managed.

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LinkedIn’s New Learning Platform to Recommend Lynda Courses for Professionals

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If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. The new product, LinkedIn Learning , includes all 5,000 courses published on Lynda.com, and any new courses created will be published on both platforms. Today the social media site for professionals. billion , that’s because it is.

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Forbes’ 2018 ‘30 Under 30’ Came Early This Year. Here’s Who Made the Education List.

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Her nonprofit, Real World Scholars , provides classrooms with the online tools to start their own community-based businesses, which has been used in hundreds of classrooms to date. Edtech investment professional Hilary Shirazi (29), now at LinkedIn , was a force behind her company’s acquisition of skill site Lynda.com.

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This Professor Uses Virtual Labs to Teach Real-World IT Skills That Employers Want

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It gave me the ability to ask the questions that I wanted answers to, and get actual answers back from either my instructors or my peers in the classroom. First there’s classroom learning about how driving the car works, including the rules of the road that will be on a driver’s test. Association for Computing Machinery.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

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Here’s what I’m using all the time in my classroom right now. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) Haiku Learning is the tool I use to blend my classroom.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Sherry Turkle Says There’s a Wrong Way to Flip a Classroom,” says Edsurge , which thankfully updated the first sentence that initially described the MIT professor as a “ former Wired magazine cover girl.” None of those chose for the education section are classroom educators, no surprise. Small world).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 Perhaps this will help the Grovo fellows: “Tips for Landing an Edtech Gig – From the EdSurge Jobs Team.” ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. ” (Wow.