Edsurge
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
LinkedIn has temporarily delayed planned changes to Lynda.com, a popular education-video library the company bought in 2015 for $1.5 billion, after libraries around the country raised privacy concerns. We recognize that there are ongoing concerns about some of the changes we are making,” the company said in a statement.
Edsurge
JULY 23, 2019
Libraries have long been enthusiastic subscribers to Lynda.com, offering their patrons access to the once-upstart company’s collection of educational videos on a range of topics. Currently, to access Lynda.com in a library, a person logs in using their library card and a PIN.
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Edsurge
JUNE 5, 2017
It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 EdSurge: A couple of years ago LinkedIn bought Lynda.com for a whopping 1.5 What is the philosophy behind joining a library of video courses with a professional-networking site? billion dollars.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
A few years ago, in a move toward professional learning, LinkedIn bought Lynda.com for $1.5 billion, adding the well-known library of video-based courses to its professional social network. So it's not like just any course library will be integrated, though the company said it plans to add others in the future.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5
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. The company claims on its website that it’s near that goal, with more than 7.2 You don’t need to put that on the blockchain.
Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2018
Customers can now pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of content. Lynda.com similarly compensates instructors for distinct video views. But these experiments increasingly seem to be landing on models where the majority of profits accrue to the platform companies, not to the content creators. monthly minimum wage.
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