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LinkedIn Pauses Changes to Lynda.com After Libraries Raise Privacy Concerns

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LinkedIn has temporarily delayed planned changes to Lynda.com, a popular education-video library the company bought in 2015 for $1.5 This summer, LinkedIn announced that it would require users of Lynda.com to create a LinkedIn account to get to the video collection. billion, after libraries around the country raised privacy concerns.

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Tech holds great promise for students with autism

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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. Story Creator is not specifically an AAC app but allows a user to create simple social stories that can be helpful for communication and interaction.

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Is Creativity a Skill?

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From personal experience, the most creative moments rarely happen on a conference call, in a meeting, or with sharpies, sticky notes and a whiteboard. 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.

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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

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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. Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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PresenceLearning Acquires Global Teletherapy and Propels Next Phase of Growth with Majority Investment from Spectrum Equity and TPG’s Rise Fund

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We have admired PresenceLearning’s commitment to meeting students’ needs across the country, and feel they are the ideal partners to sustain and grow the business in its next phase,” said Alan Goode, CEO of Global Teletherapy. “We For more information, including a complete list of portfolio investments, visit spectrumequity.com.

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Events + News - Library 2.0 Spring Summit - Free-Range Kids - Testing "Chaos" and Opting Out - Student Debt - Will College Survive?

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LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. Saturday, May 2nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Featured Teacher: Lisa Parisi , Classroom 2.0 Details to join the webinar at [link]. You can follow us on Twitter at #liveclass20.

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On building learning playlists

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Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. The teacher or librarian can easily customize and adjust playlists to meet each student’s strengths and needs and pace. Meet the Cs (AASL Concurrent session on curation and collaboration).