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The company has subscription packages that reach $1,500 a year available for its asset libraries. Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. He says government-mandated regulatory compliance training provides reliable recurring revenue for his company. Founded in 1999 and based in Deerfield Beach, Fla., billion.

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Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Aparna Krishnan LiveEdu points to colleges, schools and libraries as some of its target participants.

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Impero will also discuss its recent update to Impero iSafeguard, its online safeguarding training solution for school staff. New features include a web-based teacher console, automatic keyword library updates, GDPR compliance support, and more. KANO EDUCATION PACKAGES ( kano.me/educators/packages KANO EDUCATION PACKAGES ( kano.me/educators/packages

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The Business of Job Training. ” Via The New York Times : “At Walmart Academy , Training Better Managers. Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.”

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“But nor do they tend to have the full features we associate with universities: multiple schools and departments with a heavy focus on research, scholarship and training new Ph.Ds. In February, Sony issued a press release, “ vowing ” to bring the blockchain to education in the form of a new testing platform.

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” Via The New York Times : “ Navy Orders New Training After Deadly Ship Collisions.” ” Apparently watching CD-ROMs isn’t sufficient training for driving Navy destroyers. The Digital Public Library of America has a new head : John S. The Business of Job Training. Who’d have guessed?!

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Via Chalkbeat : “Trump’s proposed education budget: more for school choice, less for teacher training.” “Free College” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Bard College opens its second ‘microcollege’ in Brooklyn Public Library. The Business of Job Training. That’s what I do here.