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Rethink Education Re-Ups Commitment to Edtech With $107.5 Million Fund

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billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. bought for $75 million in 2014 by Pluralsight, which offers more than 5,000 online courses. Venture capital for U.S. Also missing were blockbuster exits, such as LinkedIn’s $1.5 Lessons From K-12.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via NSBA’s Legal Clips blog : “ Satanic Temple withdraws request to start after school club at Washington state elementary school.” Some say… “What to Ask When Choosing Tech for Schools” – a new Lynda.com course offered by Edsurge (which is funded in part by Lynda.com’s founder.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. ” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 .” Via Education Week : “ FCC Chairman Announces Plan to Roll Back Key Net Neutrality Rules.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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Robots are much more ideal as workers, because of course they cannot unionize. ” “The right skills,” of course, are the skills that employers expect potential employees to possess, largely eschewing training themselves and instead offloading the risk and responsibility of training onto individuals.