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
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.)
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.” Pearson is Not a Platform.
Hack Education
APRIL 28, 2017
It’s a partnership with Microsoft. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” a month.). .”
Hack Education
JANUARY 12, 2017
” Via McClatchy DC : “Forced to watch child porn for their job, Microsoft employees developed PTSD, they say.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics.
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