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

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There’s been a lot of great edtech serving the knowledge worker, such as tools like Pluralsight. His company has set out to create a digital education platform similar to Lynda.com, but focused on hands-on trades. Technology may well change the nature of trades skills and what tools are used to get the job done.

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LinkedIn’s New Learning Platform to Recommend Lynda Courses for Professionals

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If that offering sounds like what one might find on Lynda.com, which LinkedIn acquired 18 months ago. The new product, LinkedIn Learning , includes all 5,000 courses published on Lynda.com, and any new courses created will be published on both platforms. Today the social media site for professionals. billion , that’s because it is.

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

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The company’s latest deal involves something a little bit more invisible and behind the scenes, but what it calls “one of the most powerful tools we have in modern education.” That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes.

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Is Creativity a Skill?

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Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com Jaime Casap: The best creative solution usually comes from collaboration. It combines elements of both. Other soft skills include critical thinking, collaboration, and negotiation. It is a skill because it can be learned.

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Tech holds great promise for students with autism

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Lynda.com is an online training site that may be helpful for families of individuals with autism to learn how to use tablets and other devices. While not a security measure, smart lights can be a helpful visual tool to implement in your home. Social Detective teaches how to use different social skills to investigate clues.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. A fourth deal is expected to close sometime this month. He expects to see media companies play a bigger role in snapping up promising edtech startups.

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