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. If you live in New York, you really don’t care what’s trending in Silicon Valley.
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. The plan, announced Friday, is to let companies or colleges who already subscribe to LinkedIn Learning add content from a select group of other providers.
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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.
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. That ‘microlearning’ trend is really where things are going—short snippets of formal learning followed by application.”
Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2018
Lynda.com similarly compensates instructors for distinct video views. To contextualize this trend, it’s important to note that teaching has historically been a female-dominated industry, with correspondingly low salaries and low status. monthly minimum wage. We could be pushing online teachers in a similar direction.
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. Most mergers highlighted in the report don’t share a major theme, said Trace Urdan, an independent analyst. LinkedIn’s $1.5-billion
Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training.
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