Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

LinkedIn loves to learn. Today the social media site for professionals. announced an online learning portal with thousands of courses aimed at helping individuals pivot or pick up new skills for their careers. If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago.

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lynda.com Course Moodle Adobe 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 17, 2015

For college instructors, this is a little more difficult because we generally work more in isolation than those who teach in the K-12 levels and have their own dedicated classrooms in smaller schools, see each other in the hallways, and attend school events. Create a social group just for collaborating teachers.

Moodle 40

Moodle Edmodo Blackboard Course 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Subscribe to their blog.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

It’s just a bunch of video-taped lectures for the (offline) “ Startup School ” event that the startup incubator program runs at Stanford (which is really just a series of short talks by entrepreneurs and founders). Microsoft had a media event this week. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Well, not quite.

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Kaplan Education Blackboard MOOC 46