Summary
LinkedIn Learning offers career planning and customized learning paths based on your career goals, building on your existing skills and experiences.
How it works
- Requires LinkedIn Premium Account
- Corporate plans available
- Full access to entire course library with Premium Account. No extra charges
- Follow recommended learning path determined by your chosen career goals or create your own by saving courses to library or creating custom collections to group saved courses
Advantages
- Provides curated content based on your chosen learning goal and LinkedIn profile
- Set learning goals and track progress
- Receive continuing education credits through various accrediting bodies including Adobe, Cisco, HR Certification Institute to name a few.
- Post completed coursework to LinkedIn profile
- Engaging course content organized into microlearning modules taught by industry leading instructors
- Subscription based, with free month long trial. More cost effective than other services like Udemy or Coursera which require extra cost to receive certification.
- No time limit for course completion. One can start or stop a course at any time.
DISADVANTAGES
- Requires subscription
- Tailored to business community. May not be suitable for technical or manufacturing skills
- Course content may be limited; providing only foundational coursework in some areas
- Course content limited to LinkedIn content with exception as noted below.
- Does not allow the addition of outside content to personalized learning path with exception of corporate Pro Account