Edsurge
JANUARY 21, 2019
Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google To get a broader perspective, I also posed this question to professionals from different industries, working in film, writing, teaching, museums and technology companies big and small. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Here’s what they said.
Perry Hewitt
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
LinkedIn has revealed the learning program made possible by its Lynda.com acquisition, with consumer plans available for $29.99/month. Weekend fun: First the robots took our factory jobs, and now they're coming for the songwriters. It's entirely another to have those skills tested and validated for potential employers.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Plumbing is just one of many good-paying skilled trades that remain in high demand but which have largely been glossed over by the education technology industry, says Doug Donovan, co-founder and CEO of Interplay Learning. His company has set out to create a digital education platform similar to Lynda.com, but focused on hands-on trades.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 11, 2016
One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. It’s all of our loss, really, as too many in education technology happily reduce the potential of computer programming as an epistemological endeavor to a market for new products. This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.
Hack Education
APRIL 28, 2017
” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson Expands Textbook Rental Program.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 17, 2017
This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.
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