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LinkedIn spends $1 billion on education company to improve skill training

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LinkedIn to acquire lynda.com to better connect the global workforce, says company. Through a subscription to lynda.com’s service, individual members and organizations have access to a collection of courses taught by what the company says are industry experts, offered in various languages.

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LinkedIn’s New Learning Platform to Recommend Lynda Courses for Professionals

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Today the social media site for professionals. If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. targeting higher-education institutions with the new offering.

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Forbes’ 2018 ‘30 Under 30’ Came Early This Year. Here’s Who Made the Education List.

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When it comes to education, Forbes’ 2018 “30 Under 30” list might be summed up best as the year of the founder. From ambitious founders of community nonprofits to a spoken word poet, here’s a look at who made this year’s “ 30 Under 30 Education ” list. Entrepreneurship in education was a driving force in Elyse Burden’s (28) case.

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Reid Hoffman Challenges Universities to Embrace the ‘Network Effect’

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At the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit this week, held at the University of California, Berkeley, hundreds of university presidents, provosts and chancellors confronted their roles in resolving age-old tensions between public services and private wealth. universities in his keynote address: “[The U.S. They are interconnected.”

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The iPad Loophole

The Electric Educator

Grace to you Billy Graham Touch Bible Logos study bible Powerone calculator Loan calculator Halftone Doodle buddy Showme Google Earth Screenchomp italk Christianity Today Word reference lynda.com PBS super 8 Words with friends It''s unfortunate that security and safety frequently conflict with creativity and learning.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” Are any education technologies, for that matter? Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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Media literacy is a way for us to better understand our world and have our say in it. It involves understanding how -- and why -- a media message is constructed as well as its impact on the world. Digital Citizenship Curriculum (by Common Sense Education): Features free K-12 lessons on news and media literacy.