Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

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. Betsy Corcoran on Choosing the Right Technology for Your School .

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 7, 2015

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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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.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2018

Research indicates that due to a heightened interest in visual materials combined with strong visual processing capabilities, many individuals with autism benefit from using technology. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is some of most prevalent technology right now for individuals with autism.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2015

LinkedIn to acquire lynda.com to better connect the global workforce, says company. Through a subscription to lynda.com’s service, individual members and organizations have access to a collection of courses taught by what the company says are industry experts, offered in various languages.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The deal was hailed as a “major milestone in the industry” and appeared to be a complement to BrightBytes’ flagship offering, Clarity, a suite of data analytics tools that help educators understand the impact of technology spending and usage on student outcomes. Company officials declined to comment on this deal.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Research indicates that due to a heightened interest in visual materials combined with strong visual processing capabilities, many individuals with autism are attracted to and benefit from using technology. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is some of most prevalent technology right now for individuals with autism.

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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 billion, adding the well-known library of video-based courses to its professional social network.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Owl Ventures is the largest venture capital fund in the world focused on the education technology market with over $1.2 About Owl Ventures. billion in assets under management. Accel is a global venture capital firm that partners with exceptional founders with unique insights, from inception through all phases of private company growth.

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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. Every Friday, find five, highly subjective pointers to compelling technologies, emerging trends, and interesting ideas that affect how we live and work digitally. Sign up for a weekly email.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2018

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. It’s no longer just one person,” says Cohen, of the Open Textbook Network.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

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. He expects to see media companies play a bigger role in snapping up promising edtech startups.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Spectrum and The Rise Fund bring a wealth of expertise in building industry-leading technology platforms and are the ideal partners as we provide a new level of innovation to technology solutions for special education.”. For more information, including a complete list of portfolio investments, visit spectrumequity.com.

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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.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Investors who are fond of analogies and comparisons to consumer technology successes are betting on one New York City-based company to find out. Another household name is Lynda.com, now owned by Microsoft and whose courses are now also offered through LinkedIn. There are roughly 1,000 courses available on Skillshare for free.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

As Assistant Professor and Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business and Technology at Ashford University—a fully online university—she developed the new Master of Information Systems Management degree program. But as any technology person knows, especially those of us who've worked in IT for any amount of time, tech is never perfect.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 15, 2020

Lynda.com will appeal to older students and parents. Some public libraries offer free access to Lynda.com’s high-quality video library of tutorials and courses taught by recognized industry experts.

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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. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Finally, machine learning company, EquitySim ’s cofounder Justin Ling (28) made the list for his work on using technology to remove the bias from hiring practices. Edtech investment professional Hilary Shirazi (29), now at LinkedIn , was a force behind her company’s acquisition of skill site Lynda.com.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Last week LinkedIn launched a new platform to connect professionals to Lynda.com courses that are relevant to their careers. It’s a fitting message from the man who started the world’s largest social media network for professionals.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But the underlying blockchain technology is complex, and attracting droves of interest from the likes of IBM and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Building on Blockchain Exchanging tokens isn’t the only way in which educators and researchers are using blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies for education.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Last week, on the Time web site, Udemy CO Dennis Yang claims to have “cracked online education” They haven’t of course and this is exactly the sort of glib claim guaranteed to to annoy those that have thought deepest and longest about the ways in which technology can be used in education. There is a ‘but’ though.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. Venture capital for U.S. Also missing were blockbuster exits, such as LinkedIn’s $1.5

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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.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Last week, on the Time web site, Udemy CO Dennis Yang claims to have “cracked online education” They haven’t of course and this is exactly the sort of glib claim guaranteed to to annoy those that have thought deepest and longest about the ways in which technology can be used in education. There is a ‘but’ though.

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Wired Campus

AUGUST 7, 2015

billion acquisition of Lynda.com is an outlier in terms of the size of the transaction, though it could be a model of a coming trend in higher education in which traditional colleges could get involved, he said. Other areas drawing attention from private investors include international models in higher education and new uses of technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Lynda.com similarly compensates instructors for distinct video views. 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. We could be pushing online teachers in a similar direction. Ed2Go offers a royalty rate of only 30 percent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

Thursday, April 30th at 3pm Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , The technology landscape changes rapidly, and these changes have economic, social, and ethical significance for individuals, organizations, and the entire world.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 17, 2018

Some of my colleagues use Lynda.com to gather playlists from specific elements selected across the hundreds of offered courses. Professional development : Playlists are excellent vehicles to drive those technology lunch-and-learn experience. I have a YouTube playlist of workouts I use when I travel.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Of course, media literacy is always evolving as technology and culture shift, and there's no shortage of smart frameworks that each define it slightly differently. LinkedIn Learning : Formerly Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning is a subscription-based site for courses in media production and beyond.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

She also has a Technology Jump Start Course with 8 modules to help get you comfortable with technology in the classroom.) I went through an incredible course on Lynda.com in January to help me use it better each day. Today I’m celebrating my friend Jennifer Gonzalez’s 2016 The Teacher’s Guide to Tech.

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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.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Campus Technology reports that Davidson College is partnering with Revature to offering coding classes to its students and graduates. Some say… “What to Ask When Choosing Tech for Schools” – a new Lynda.com course offered by Edsurge (which is funded in part by Lynda.com’s founder. Small world).

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” ’” “She didn’t say anything positive about technology, dammit.”

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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.” million from Morningside Technology Ventures, University Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank. ” Good grief, the handwringing.

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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.” He even praised Germany – Germany!

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