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JULY 23, 2019
Libraries have long been enthusiastic subscribers to Lynda.com, offering their patrons access to the once-upstart company’s collection of educational videos on a range of topics. Currently, to access Lynda.com in a library, a person logs in using their library card and a PIN. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015 for $1.5
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
From launching new tablets to virtual-reality curriculum , Microsoft has added plenty to its educational offerings through a series of new product updates and acquisitions over the past few years. Of the “Big Five” technology giants, Microsoft has become the most acqui-hungry as of late in the learning and training space.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
A few years ago, in a move toward professional learning, LinkedIn bought Lynda.com for $1.5 Microsoft bought LinkedIn in 2016. billion, adding the well-known library of video-based courses to its professional social network.
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
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. acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion , that’s because it is.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. Everyone once in awhile they decide they want to get into education,” Palmer says, from Washington Post’s purchase of Kaplan in 1984 and LinkedIn buying Lynda.com in 2015. The Fulton, Md.-based
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
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.
Edsurge
JULY 23, 2018
Another household name is Lynda.com, now owned by Microsoft and whose courses are now also offered through LinkedIn. Udemy, founded the same year, now claims to have 24 million students and 35,000 teachers across the world, and recently opened up an office in Brazil this summer.
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