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

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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. Today the social media site for professionals. billion , that’s because it is.

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As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges

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It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 The move made clear that the professional networking platform wanted to play a broader role in the future of employment (and it raised the eyebrows of some college officials who wonder how big that role might get).

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What Did SXSWedu Have to Say About Adult Learning?

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Salesforce and LinkedIn/Lynda.com talked about how their learning platforms help adults learn skills via personalized pathways. However, the focus was more on how to build middle skills rather than on building foundational skills. Second, there were several sessions about the skills gap and ways to address that gap.

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Tech holds great promise for students with autism

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Social Detective teaches how to use different social skills to investigate clues. Lynda.com is an online training site that may be helpful for families of individuals with autism to learn how to use tablets and other devices.

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As Campuses Move to Embrace OER, College Libraries Become Key Players

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Even when professors are convinced to try open educational resources, for instance, they often have questions, such as how to find them and how to tell which ones are high-quality. She also tracks how well OER is working in the courses that use them, and tallies up how much money the efforts are saving students.

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Is Creativity a Skill?

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Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com Jaime Casap: The best creative solution usually comes from collaboration. Some people barely need to be told how to be creative. It combines elements of both. It is a skill because it can be learned.

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This Professor Uses Virtual Labs to Teach Real-World IT Skills That Employers Want

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Online learning, live lectures and material for the content in this program are similar to learning the details of how to drive. First there’s classroom learning about how driving the car works, including the rules of the road that will be on a driver’s test. Steph YoungGonzaga YoungGonzaga’s favorite online learning tools.