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.

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lynda.com Learning Comparison Conference 158

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 its business will focus on problems in STEM and academia. There’s little precedent for any of these experiments.

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Sony Learning Company lynda.com 108

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

” Contests and Conferences. ” – “ China’s STEM learning industry may reach $15 billion by 2020.” Via Venture Beat : “ LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users’ passwords following data leak.” Tenured faculty at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville have voted to unionize.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

He believes the future of education means all STEM, no arts and no humanities. Via Inside Higher Ed : “New study finds that penalties for breaking NCAA rules are largely consistent across conference membership – and that men’s basketball and football account for the vast majority of violations.”

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40