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Interplay Raises $18M to Build a Lynda.com for Essential Skilled Trades

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His company has set out to create a digital education platform similar to Lynda.com, but focused on hands-on trades. A McKinsey report predicts that maintenance and repair work is “not as highly susceptible to automation by 2030.” “There’s been a lot of great edtech serving the knowledge worker, such as tools like Pluralsight.

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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. As we outline in our latest report , the adult learning ed-tech market is complex and evolving. Second, there were several sessions about the skills gap and ways to address that gap.

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What to Ask When Choosing Tech for Schools

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Everything that we do at EdSurge—covering the news, building out research reports, developing the edtech Index and, most recently, building out our Concierge program —is aimed at helping schools figure out what the right technology is for their students and teachers. Check it out!

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Microsoft Takes a Bite Out of BrightBytes, Acquiring Its DataSense Platform and Team

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In a nutshell, DataSense is a set of professional services that work with K-12 districts to collect data from different data systems, translate them into unified formats and aggregate that information into a unified dashboard for reporting purposes.

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

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They didn’t have anyone to monitor the progress and report out,” says Ms. Jaggars says that libraries are key partners in efforts to replace traditional textbooks because they have often already bought campus-wide licenses to things like scholarly journals or video libraries like Lynda.com that professors might want to assign.

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Following the Money in Ed-Tech Investment: Number of Mergers Grows

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The number of mergers and acquisitions in the industry has reached its highest peak in two and a half years, according to a recent report by the investment-banking firm of Berkery Noyes. Most mergers highlighted in the report don’t share a major theme, said Trace Urdan, an independent analyst. LinkedIn’s $1.5-billion

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?Why an iTunes Model for Online Learning Is Bad for Educators

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Lynda.com similarly compensates instructors for distinct video views. And according to a 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation, 67 percent of instructional designers are female. Data journalist David McCandless calculated it would take over one million plays on Spotify for a solo artist to earn the U.S. monthly minimum wage.