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Is Creativity a Skill?

Edsurge

Respondents to a Twitter poll leaned slightly in favor of “yes.” Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com Jaime Casap: The best creative solution usually comes from collaboration. How can creativity be measured or assessed? It combines elements of both.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. “Some colleges cancel their contracts with online education provider Lynda.com after double-digit price hikes, saying the company is pricing itself out of the higher education market,” Inside Higher Ed reported in January.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

and a Link to a Free Resource with More Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I went through an incredible course on Lynda.com in January to help me use it better each day. So many of these tools are new to me. It is amazing how I use them every single day. Omnifocus (Task Management).

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

” The technology revolution has delivered Google searches, Facebook friends, iPhone apps, Twitter rants and shopping for almost anything on Amazon, all in the past decade and a half. LinkedIn, of course, had acquired online job training company Lynda.com last year for $1.5 What it hasn’t delivered are many jobs.