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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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As LinkedIn’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges

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It has been just over two years since LinkedIn shocked the industry by buying Lynda.com, a library of video courses, for $1.5 EdSurge: A couple of years ago LinkedIn bought Lynda.com for a whopping 1.5 Golding: I joined Lynda.com in 2011. You taught courses at Lynda.com before LinkedIn bought the company.

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Lynda.com’s free offerings

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I’ll admit it wasn’t on my K12 radar, but at the university one of the most popular resources for teaching and learning and catching up is Lynda.com. Lynda.com Youtube channel features 10 percent of the online learning company’s course content–heavy on software and technology, design, and business skills.

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Tech holds great promise for students with autism

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From devices to apps to smart-home implementations, technology can help improve daily life for those on the autism spectrum immensely, and software and devices that are currently in development offer great promise for the future. Social Detective teaches how to use different social skills to investigate clues.

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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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In addition, clinicians are demanding remote work alternatives and software solutions to make their work both more impactful and sustainable. is the leading provider of teletherapy and software solutions for special education related services and behavioral mental health counseling in K-12 schools. PresenceLearning, Inc.,

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This Professor Uses Virtual Labs to Teach Real-World IT Skills That Employers Want

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Previously, when we've been teaching IT courses, we had students download the software and install it on their own PC and work with it there. Students couldn't get the software. Or they were trying to install PC software on Macs. As you can imagine, that was fraught with technical support issues. They couldn't download it.

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

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“Before, our only options were to send people to a training, sit in a course, and learn the material–whether from a university or a week-long certification,” says Shelly Holt, vice president of global learning for SAP, a leading enterprise-software company. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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