How Lynda.com got started, and some of their learning philosophy, and future plans.
This is not surprisingly in a Lynda.com course format…here’s the course “intro” below.
How Lynda.com got started, and some of their learning philosophy, and future plans.
This is not surprisingly in a Lynda.com course format…here’s the course “intro” below.
Lynda does actually look a bit like the logo…and looks partly like a “teacher” might look.
But then she’s got those elaborate dangly earrings, which say “not your average teacher” and give her a bit of an edgy vibe. Or at least non stuffy, which I actually like in leadership for new age of learning. Be at least a little outside the box.
Lynda.com executive in this “course”… which I recommend as a number of apropos issues arise during it…at one point dismisses social media aspects of online learning. So….just because you have a great business model for a certain point in the evolution and development of cloud tools, doesn’t mean you actually know fully what you are doing.
Lynda.com really took off at the point where video because ubiquitously available in the cloud because the infrastructure finally could handle quality streaming. For a mass market, if not for everyone…affordable access still being a real problem.
However, while their material is quality, and very useful, it doesn’t take advantage of all the learning elements that are going to “blow up” in coming years. Schools presently can “fit” Lynda.com into their structure without an immense amount of restructuring, and the course ware is in some ways glorified shovel ware.
What is very challenging and hard to do and very disruptive is to reenvision learning from a DIY perspective where the learner participates in real and elaborate ways in the learning process. This is what schools can’t easily incorporate, and collaborative self directed DIY adaptive learning in a SLC is far beyond what Lynda has figured out how to support.
This all being said by someone who has benefited greatly by Lynda.com courses being available…ie I’ve learned a LOT using them…very enabling…the price is affordable, mostly. And I highly recommend Lynda.com courses to most people. But not to everyone…you have to be highly motivated to go it alone.
I found the short, quality intro videos easy to follow, answering my questions about the business model. I haven’t started the course in neuroscience yet so not sure how motivating the presentation works. I know you had a very specific interest with FCP so Lynda.com is perfect for getting to the details and clearing the confusion. This is training. As you mentioned, the SLC is missing.