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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. Customers of Edulence’s learning management system, Knowledgelink, include Lincoln Financial Group and AARP Services. Plus, he believes companies have become so invested in employee education as a retention tool that they can’t go back to policies before online learning.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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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. Perhaps the most-hyped application revolves around using blockchains to prove what students have learned.

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Where to Find Money for Your School’s Edtech Purchases

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For any teacher: The Foundation for Blended and Online Learning has a grant program that will open up in April of 2017. If you’d rather work with a corporation, consider applying for an award from the likes of the Sony Corporation of America, which gives away funding to various academic institutions throughout the year.

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