Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
From launching new tablets to virtual-reality curriculum , Microsoft has added plenty to its educational offerings through a series of new product updates and acquisitions over the past few years. It also offers a rostering solution that expedites how student and educator accounts for third-party edtech applications are created and managed.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. He expects to see media companies play a bigger role in snapping up promising edtech startups.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. The new product, LinkedIn Learning , includes all 5,000 courses published on Lynda.com, and any new courses created will be published on both platforms. acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion , that’s because it is.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion. billion acquisition of Lynda.com in 2015—and LinkedIn’s subsequent acquisition by Microsoft in 2016 for $26 billion—are connected to the new business models in the provision of corporate learning.
Edsurge
JULY 23, 2018
Another household name is Lynda.com, now owned by Microsoft and whose courses are now also offered through LinkedIn. Udemy, founded the same year, now claims to have 24 million students and 35,000 teachers across the world, and recently opened up an office in Brazil this summer.
The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 3, 2016
As I was reading The Teacher’s Guide to Tech last week, I realized that it had been a while since I’d shared my own favorite edtech tools. Microsoft Word (Personal Wordprocessing for Basic Documents). Microsoft Word – Lots of layouts, templates, and just heavy duty wordprocessing. Thanks Jennifer! .
Hack Education
OCTOBER 14, 2016
Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” 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. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).
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