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LinkedIn Pauses Changes to Lynda.com After Libraries Raise Privacy Concerns

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LinkedIn has temporarily delayed planned changes to Lynda.com, a popular education-video library the company bought in 2015 for $1.5 This summer, LinkedIn announced that it would require users of Lynda.com to create a LinkedIn account to get to the video collection. billion, after libraries around the country raised privacy concerns.

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As LinkedIn Learning Subsumes Lynda.com, Library Groups Raise Privacy Concerns

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Libraries have long been enthusiastic subscribers to Lynda.com, offering their patrons access to the once-upstart company’s collection of educational videos on a range of topics. Currently, to access Lynda.com in a library, a person logs in using their library card and a PIN. LinkedIn acquired Lynda.com in 2015 for $1.5

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Varsity Tutors to Go Public at $1.7B Valuation Through SPAC Acquisition

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TPG was also a backer of Lynda.com, an early pioneer in online video instruction, which was acquired by LinkedIn for $1.5 TPG, the private equity firm behind the deal, is an investor in other edtech companies through its social-impact arm, The Rise Fund. These include DreamBox Learning, EverFi, InStride and Renaissance Learning.

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What Did SXSWedu Have to Say About Adult Learning?

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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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OMG it’s Lynda from Lynda.com

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After a little chatter she reveals she is THE Lynda from Lynda.com. Walking to the Edutopia meetup I asked directions from a woman near me. Turns out we were going to the same event. I had to get a picture with her. Lynda If you […].

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

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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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