Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

LinkedIn loves to learn. 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. acquired by Microsoft for $26.2

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Another household name is Lynda.com, now owned by Microsoft and whose courses are now also offered through LinkedIn. Skillshare also finds itself jostling with upstarts like Teachable, which earlier this year raised $4 million to help experts create and sell online courses. There are exceptions, she notes.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

.” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Subscribe to their blog.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

It’s a partnership with Microsoft. Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation and Koch Industries , a well-known opponent of government spending on things like public education (among other things). ” Via McClatchy DC : “Forced to watch child porn for their job, Microsoft employees developed PTSD, they say.” More via Inside Higher Ed.

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