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

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Today the social media site for professionals. If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. LinkedIn loves to learn. billion , that’s because it is.

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LinkedIn spends $1 billion on education company to improve skill training

eSchool News

LinkedIn to acquire lynda.com to better connect the global workforce, says company. Through a subscription to lynda.com’s service, individual members and organizations have access to a collection of courses taught by what the company says are industry experts, offered in various languages.

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Reid Hoffman Challenges Universities to Embrace the ‘Network Effect’

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and “How can higher-ed institutions broaden access to education without diminishing the quality of the learning experience for students?”. We are leading the world in terms of inequality in terms of access to higher education,” he said. They addressed questions like, “How much should public universities let companies fund research?”

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

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Many of the creative types honored are using social media to reach large numbers of students and education influencers. Prince Ea , 29) has created videos that have received about a billion views across social media, where he showcases his spoken word poetry on topics such as social justice and education.

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The iPad Loophole

The Electric Educator

During the first semester some of our creative and talented students found an interesting iOS loophole that gave them unfiltered access to the web. Facebook accessed through the Google Earth App Twitter accessed through the Screen Chomp App Over Christmas break we were forced to remove the following apps, all of which contained this loophole.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “One million high school students from low-income families will receive free internet access under President Barack Obama’s ’ My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative for minority males, the White House announced.” Some say the earth is flat. Some say the world is a computer simulation.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

” More people access the Internet with mobile phones than with computers. I went through an incredible course on Lynda.com in January to help me use it better each day. While we’re excited, the issues the students are grappling with are among some of the most serious on this planet and we don’t take it lightly.

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