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What Did SXSWedu Have to Say About Adult Learning?

Digital Promise

What did this year’s SXSWedu conference have to say about adult learning? SXSWedu is one of the country’s largest educational technology conferences and, as most of these conferences go, has tended to focus more on the K-12 segment than on adults who are in need of foundational skills to help them advance in the workforce.

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As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges

Edsurge

It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 The move made clear that the professional networking platform wanted to play a broader role in the future of employment (and it raised the eyebrows of some college officials who wonder how big that role might get).

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Is Creativity a Skill?

Edsurge

From personal experience, the most creative moments rarely happen on a conference call, in a meeting, or with sharpies, sticky notes and a whiteboard. 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.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

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. Not to mention platforms like YouTube have no shortage of free how-to videos).

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Events + News - Library 2.0 Spring Summit - Free-Range Kids - Testing "Chaos" and Opting Out - Student Debt - Will College Survive?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join this interactive session to learn how to get started with game-based learning with your own students. For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here. The conference will be held entirely online and is free to attend. See this year''s conference strands and plan to get your proposal in early.

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On building learning playlists

NeverEndingSearch

Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. A former student once gave me a gift of a learning playlist progressively arranged for me to improve my two-step moves before a conference in Texas. I have a YouTube playlist of workouts I use when I travel.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 ” Via The New York Times : “Family by Family, How School Segregation Still Happens.”