Digital Promise
MARCH 15, 2017
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.
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 Golding: I joined Lynda.com in 2011. You taught courses at Lynda.com before LinkedIn bought the company.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 21, 2019
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.
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. That’s still very much in the idea phase, but at least one startup has already run an ICO that builds on the interest.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
APRIL 20, 2015
For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here. Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference: Tools, Skills & Competencies , October 20th The fifth annual global conversation about the future of libraries is scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th, 2015. All events are listed in US-Eastern Time.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L. .” And how much growth can we really expect in the size of the LMS market? Subscribe to their blog.
NeverEndingSearch
AUGUST 17, 2018
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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