Prove it or Lose it: What it Takes to Win K-12 in 2026
June 11, 2026 BlogFor the past three years, our team has had some version of the same conversation: Is the K-12…
Published by: Inside Higher Ed
LinkedIn has become a company to watch in higher education. This week the job networking site announced it would spend $1.5 billion to buy lynda.com, an online course portal.
The deal is the biggest so far for LinkedIn, which has roughly 300 million users. Last year the publicly traded company unveiled a college ranking system based on its members’ career success, expanding with graduate school rankings last month. It also released a search tool that links college majors with jobs — allowing users to peruse real profiles of people who work in specific fields and geographic locations.