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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NspireD2

AUGUST 18, 2016

courses you might want to explore @lynda.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2017

Salesforce and LinkedIn/Lynda.com talked about how their learning platforms help adults learn skills via personalized pathways. Second, there were several sessions about the skills gap and ways to address that gap. Other sessions focused on credentialing and competencies as alternative pathways to skill development.

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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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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

OCTOBER 11, 2016

You can see the full course either here on LinkedIn Learning , or on Lynda.com. This week, in partnership with LinkedIn, we're launching a short, free course on choosing the right technology. Check it out! And, of course, if you'd like to have a one-on-one with our Concierge team, just start here.

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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

APRIL 11, 2018

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. Story Creator is not specifically an AAC app but allows a user to create simple social stories that can be helpful for communication and interaction.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Lynda.com Some public libraries offer free access to Lynda.com’s high-quality video library of tutorials and courses taught by recognized industry experts. The service is are available five languages.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Acko, Atlassian, Blackbuck, BookMyshow, Bounce, Braintree, BrowserStack, CrowdStrike, CureFit, Deliveroo, DJI, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Freshworks, Jet, Kayak, Lynda.com, Qualtrics, Rovio, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Swiggy, Tenable, UiPath, UrbanClap and Venmo are among the companies the firm has backed over the past 35+ years.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

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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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 17, 2015

billion acquisition of lynda.com. Three ed-tech companies raised nearly $20 million and LinkedIn entered the education market with a $1.5 chicagocubs citations coding digitalcontent edtech flatironschool k12dealmaking linkedin lyndacom mergersandacquisitions nearpod onlinelearning refme venturecapital'

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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. It's one thing to claim you have skills on your LinkedIn profile, and have a couple of colleagues endorse you. It's entirely another to have those skills tested and validated for potential employers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In recent years it purchased several consumer brand names whose services reach into education, including LinkedIn (which owns Lynda.com, now a part of the LinkedIn Learning suite), Minecraft (which has been adapted for use in the classroom) and Github (which released an education bundle ).

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Lynda.com, a product of LinkedIn for learning professional skills, is an example of an educational OTT tech platform—both for educator PD and student online learning. The courses offered on the Lynda.com site are organized into modules with streaming video instructions to lead users/students through the lesson,” notes Luskin.

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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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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

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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ProfHacker

JUNE 23, 2015

On Lynda.com, you can take Jen Kramer’s “ Up and Running with Bootstrap 3. ” (Subscription required.). If you’re looking for actual courses in Bootstrap, here are 2 options that look promising: At edX, Microsoft offers “ Introduction to Bootstrap – A Tutorial.” Free, or $90 if you want certification.). How about you?

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Another household name is Lynda.com, now owned by Microsoft and whose courses are now also offered through LinkedIn. Udemy, founded the same year, now claims to have 24 million students and 35,000 teachers across the world, and recently opened up an office in Brazil this summer.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Representative investments include Ancestry, Bats Global Markets, Definitive Healthcare, GoodRx, Grubhub, Headspace Health, Lucid Software, Lynda.com, Origami Risk, SurveyMonkey and Verafin. For more information, including a complete list of portfolio investments, visit spectrumequity.com. About The Rise Funds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

But as any technology person knows, especially those of us who've worked in IT for any amount of time, tech is never perfect. Steph YoungGonzaga YoungGonzaga’s favorite online learning tools. Association for Computing Machinery.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

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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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. In the past six months, the number of such mergers grew by 9 percent. LinkedIn’s $1.5-billion

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 16, 2012

Grace to you Billy Graham Touch Bible Logos study bible Powerone calculator Loan calculator Halftone Doodle buddy Showme Google Earth Screenchomp italk Christianity Today Word reference lynda.com PBS super 8 Words with friends It''s unfortunate that security and safety frequently conflict with creativity and learning.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

My first degree was in Construction Management I currently study with Pluralsight and Lynda.com to keep my programming and tech skills up to date and I’ve just joined a course from Udemy on creating computer games. A host of providers are offering flexible, affordable online learning aimed at the workforce.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

My first degree was in Construction Management I currently study with Pluralsight and Lynda.com to keep my programming and tech skills up to date and I’ve just joined a course from Udemy on creating computer games. A host of providers are offering flexible, affordable online learning aimed at the workforce.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

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

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

For families of individuals with autism, the online training website lynda.com may be helpful for learning how to use tablets and other devices. Story Creator is not specifically an AAC app but allows a user to create simple social stories which can be helpful for communication and interaction.

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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. I create little magazines of continually updated outside reading beyond our texts for my grad students offering them opportunities to explore and contribute. I have a YouTube playlist of workouts I use when I travel.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

For many, it never existed LAUSD Ditches Pearson and Apple - Diane Ravitch''s blog Call for Proposals 2015 - K12 Online Conference California''s multi-million dollar online education flop is another blow for MOOCs - The Hechinger Report Data and Diplomas: On LinkedIn''s Acquisition of Lynda.com - Audrey Watters Illusion Motivates Education Reform - (..)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

“Some colleges cancel their contracts with online education provider Lynda.com after double-digit price hikes, saying the company is pricing itself out of the higher education market,” Inside Higher Ed reported in January. “Now Any Organization Can Create Content for LinkedIn Learning,” Edsurge reported in June.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

I went through an incredible course on Lynda.com in January to help me use it better each day. It is amazing how a quick glance at a high def meadow or waterfalls just does something to you! Omnifocus (Task Management). Omnifocus – I use Omnifocus for my tasks. Task Clone (Send Tasks from Evernote to Omnifocus).

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