Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. For example, there are specific skills that would encourage creative thinking—both divergent idea generation and convergent selection between ideas. It’s embedded in problem-solving, for example. How can creativity be measured or assessed?

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 7, 2015

I’ll admit it wasn’t on my K12 radar, but at the university one of the most popular resources for teaching and learning and catching up is Lynda.com. Designed to address the training needs of industry, government and education, the service offers professionally produced video with curricula and assessment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. Andela and Guild Education are prime examples of companies he would have liked to invest in. It’s an observation borne, perhaps, out of his experience working with Smarterer, a skills assessment platform that was.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

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. Doug Levin For all of the hype around ICOs, there’s still plenty of skepticism—and examples of fraud.

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Sony Learning Company lynda.com 102

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.). The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. The company has raised some $77.5

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 17, 2018

Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. They can include interactive elements and assessments of progress. Have them create original content and assessments as well. Search them for inspiring examples as well. Pearltrees. LessonPaths.

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Khan Academy OER lynda.com Learning 41

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

Wikispaces is also the backbone of my global collaborative projects since 2006, with MAD about Mattering as the most recent example. For example, many of my personal files from home, I do not sync with my school computer. I went through an incredible course on Lynda.com in January to help me use it better each day. No problem.

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Tools EdTech Haiku Learning Classroom 120