LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)
LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)
LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)
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Lynda.com (now offered as part of LinkedIn Learning) is an elearning course library acquired and now supported by LinkedIn in May 2015.
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Lynda.com (now offered as part of LinkedIn Learning) is an elearning course library acquired and now supported by LinkedIn in May 2015.
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June 10, 2022
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Score 9 out of 10
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We used Linkedin Learning to help supplement soft skills learning for managers. Some teams, e.g. engineering, use it to augment technical skills for new graduates as well.
- Up to date training content
- Very personable videos with introductions
- a lot of soft skills training
- content varies from instructor to instructor
- little control from corporate on what employees learn
April 22, 2021
LinkedIn Learning Review
Score 2 out of 10
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I have used Lynda.com since they first opened, prior to online course offerings. Their initial classes were delivered on CD-ROM and I was an early alpha and beta tester for them. Personally I continue to use their classes to get up to speed on new software. They no longer offer classes for legacy software versions, unfortunately, which is a terrible limitation of their usefulness to me. I also have used their classes to get a large non-profit team I work with up to speed on software we use collectively. I have frequently recommended Lynda.com to clients so we could work collaboratively with graphical assets. I have continued to subscribe because I loved the company - before it was acquired by LinkedIn. Now I'm on the verge of canceling.
- They have progressively updated the interface for the video lessons, adding a transcript, and for some time they had several video window options. These were important because you frequently have to refer back and forth between the lesson segments, transcript, and video, which is an extra usability headache when you have to scroll constantly.
- Their introductory "essential training" videos are generally quite good at getting an overview of software tools, functionality, and work flow.
- Lynda.com specialized initially in DESIGN. She was the first person to author web design books oriented towards graphic designers instead of programmers. She often included videos with groundbreaking artists in their field.
- Transcripts are an essential tool in the lessons. Once you've watched everything, there are bound to be things you need to refer to again, and the transcripts help because you don't have to watch each video again.
- LinkedIn Learning has already made much of Lynda.com's content unusable. Where software lessons were once clearly indexed by company and title, now searches lead to every video segment that mentions a topic among all related software products. Meanwhile, it's often impossible to find courses when you know they exist. For example, Google and G-Suite courses were nearly impossible to find for some time.
- LinkedIn's interface is already confusing and counter-intuitive. They've wrapped LinkedIn Learning into the existing over-cluttered interface, making it even harder to use effectively. As a company, they've also proven to be untrustworthy; when I first signed up for Linked In, they spammed everyone in my contact list, and there are lots of reports of them billing customers without their consent. I'm being forced to migrate to LinkedIn Learning, but the account migration doesn't work, and their tech support was clueless why.
- Lynda.com was never terribly great for learning coding. Even if you buy the upper tier subscription with the exercise files, it can often be difficult to debug a problem when you're following an instructor onscreen. If there's something you're confused by, there's no way to ask a question for clarification. LinkedIn is even worse because it's trying to include every IT subject that certifications are available for, and they're weak on design software.
- The class certificates are basically a joke. All you have to do to "earn one" is let all the videos in a course play through to the end. I think there may be comprehension questions thrown in for good measure, but I never found them to help comprehension or retention.
- Just like the present site, LinkedIn targets everything towards corporate clients. A large majority of design professionals and creatives in general are contract workers and resent pop-up menus that don't even mention design among the potential departments or any related job titles. LinkedIn Learning is targeted towards IT support personnel, not creative software users.
- Lynda.com was initially a family business. Together with Bruce Heavin, she offered easily accessible training for people without technical backgrounds. Now she's on the Forbes top 100 women list, valuing her at $310 million. Lynda.com went through a growth spurt that moved them from Ojai to Ventura, and in the process they became less and less personal. Support staff was still friendly, helpful, and responsive though. Few other businesses offered the ability to start and stop a subscription without any penalty. Now LinkedIn's purchase seems to be putting nails in the coffin. No longer is there phone support - only a chat window with uninformed people puzzled why they can't migrate [your] account.
November 17, 2020
LinkedIn Learning: The Best In Learning Online
Score 10 out of 10
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I use LinkedIn Learning to keep up on current trends, training practices, and also new fields of study. I use LIL in understanding the current career fields and also relating to others in different fields. It addresses for me what hurdles people go through to be and remain top in their field and relate to theirs in that field.
- It does an excellent job in relating to their audience and transferring and relating information they give in each course.
- It always has a variety of new and relevant courses to improve your career skill set and marketability to new and possible clients and employers.
- The price and selection of obtaining vital skills sets can not be beat. It is not just celebrity experts, but highly valued and main experts in the fields they dominate explaining to you how you can get there now and not later.
- More deals that work within each matter of subject and add an add bonus to whatever LinkedIn package you purchase on premium.
- Finally, combining LinkedIn Learning/Lynda in a uniformed package so people know it is the same company, especially those that utilize their library for study.
- Expansion on other subjects or experts in certain aspects (International Languages and Religion) would be helpful. Imagine a course on Greek or Hebrew.
- A good three month bundle price for longtime LinkedIn members would not hurt.
September 28, 2020
It's not much, but it works.
LinkedIn Learning (or Lynda.com) is available to all employees of our organization. The intent was to allow users to train themselves or increase their own skill sets. Any employee is able to access it, but I find that very few are actually using it often, if at all. It is most used by our technical personnel.
- Accessible
- Cheap price model
- Wide berth of available subjects
- Technical content is surface-level at best.
- Too many different names. Bad Branding.
- Very basic; not very feature-rich.
We are using LinkedIn Learning as a means to bolster our team's development. One of our concerns as a smaller organization was finding ways to enhance our team's skillsets and attributes without a significant overall cost. Moreover, we wanted a solution that was adaptable and provided a means for our team to access both in and out of the office. Instead of looking externally for all of our training needs, we are able to keep the costs fixed for a large portion of our training through LinkedIn Learning and provide curated content to employees to enhance their skills.
- Large amount of content - from soft to hard skills, LinkedIn Learning provides a full suite of content to make available to your learners. You'll likely be hard pressed to not find something worth reviewing.
- User management is done well. We can suggest content, review what people have completed, and make/view suggestions to keep people engaged in continuous learning.
- Connection between LinkedIn (standard) and LinkedIn Learning as many professional users are already familiar with LinkedIn and the interface stays similar so that the transition between the two is largely seamless.
- I'd like the ability to upload your own content to be a standard inclusion rather than an "add-on" of sorts. If part of a standard membership, we might see more adoption of this. Perhaps even adding the option to share your content with other companies where applicable.
- If you have created a Learning Path, the editing of courses and order/placement can be problematic as rather than being able to easily shuffle courses between sections of a learning path, you would have to delete and start over. I should be able to move course x from section c to section a without issue.
- While there are a seemingly endless number of courses/content, I'd like to see more industry-specific content, such as that focused on the insurance industry and the various platforms utilized within.
April 23, 2020
Lucking out with LinkedIn Learning
I'm a HUGE fan of LinkedIn Learning and have been a user since it was Lynda.com. The sheer variety of courses and the extremely high quality of the courses make it the best value on the market. For LinkedIn users who have gaps in their learning, who want to pivot and learn new skills, or who just want to round out their knowledge, LinkedIn Learning is an invaluable tool for learners of all ages.
- Vast variety of lessons.
- Very high quality trainings.
- Great platform for engaging.
- Certifications!!!
- Ability to ask the program author questions and get real time answers.
- Sometimes there are too many courses! Some AI intelligence to help sort courses.
- When a course is updated I don't necessarily want to watch the whole thing again. I would love to see what is new.
- Sometimes the platform hangs up a bit.
February 28, 2020
Great video tutorials and training
LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) is an educational tool used by everyone in the organization to upgrade their skills and knowledge in specific areas. I personally use it for education in the technological field as well as for graphic design. It is a great way to have employees trained online in their own time and considering their own availability. This is a great alternative to attending post-secondary classes.Videos are easy to follow and well instructed. The variety of information provided is an excellent way to broaden skills.
- Well-instructed videos with examples
- Practical files
- I find that the videos stop when watched on a tablet.
- I wish the videos could be played at different speeds.
January 28, 2020
Fantastic learning tool for large companies
We switched our entire learning system for our company over to LinkedIn Learning, last year. It is our primary source for skills training, as well as for a lot of technical training, now. It is used for everything from basic customer service skills, to project management, to training for specific applications.
- Technical training.
- Soft skills.
- Longer tracks for larger skill sets.
- Certifications.
There are a number of people in our marketing department that have access to LinkedIn Learning. We find it extremely valuable to be able for people to teach themselves how to do things with software that they may not already know how to do. It is useful because many times someone can watch a 20 minute training and not have to instead attend an external conference or training outside the office.
- Easy to find what you need
- Super convenient
- Very good instruction
- They could send me links to trainings they think I'd be interested in
- Have a quick "tips and tricks" area of their site
- Have another area that's all long term learning as well
October 18, 2019
Online learning for everyone!
Lynda.com is used across the organization and allows the individuals like me to keep their work skills fresh, to learn new ones and to keep in the loop with modern technologies. Lynda.com is constantly refreshing the course offerings and provides a variety of learning paths and it is very important in the days of constantly changing technology.
- It allows the learning at your own pace. You course history is always at hand, as well as all the exercise files.
- It allows to practice some skills (like coding) right inside the site's editor without switching to the other programs.
- It helps to choose classes and learning paths. I am currently on my way to complete Wordpress and photography related ones.
- The level of instructors is anything between great and brilliant. All the courses give a very clear presentations and provide adequate exercises.
- You will be able to use your knowledge in real life. I gained a lot from what I learned watching photography and web design classes, my skills improved significantly.
- All videos can be watch with text overlay and played at a different speed (they really care about accessibility).
- It would be good to have more intermediate and advanced classes
- It wood be good to have learning path that may help in gaining certification (like Microsoft or Oracle ones)
- It would be nice to have some individual help from instructors (for the additional payment, of course)
October 16, 2019
I've found new career paths thanks to LinkedIn Learning
The first thing I do at any company is review their resource material. Tech moves quickly, and ensuring that they have a library of excellent resources is reflective of the type of people and culture of the company.
In my team, we are constantly learn new things. And LinkedIn Learning is vital to quick training.
- Teaching a how-to in bite sized pieces
- Consistency of the quality of content
- Huge library of content and education
- Progress and tracking
- LinkedIn Learning provides learning paths, but it's left much to be desired. Not enough direction about the why, or learning outcomes.
- Some courses provide exercises/quizzes. Others do not. There's definitely a missing piece to test comprehension.
- The library is so large, it's difficult to really build your own learning. I find it better for just-in-time learning.
October 15, 2019
Lynda is value for your money!
Lynda is being used by the Directors at Flambo Media to ensure we keep on top of industry-related trends.
In the near future, we would like to make Lynda courses available to all employees. It will save our company money by giving employees access to do Lynda courses instead of paying for them to attend expensive conferences.
In the near future, we would like to make Lynda courses available to all employees. It will save our company money by giving employees access to do Lynda courses instead of paying for them to attend expensive conferences.
- Lets me learn at my own pace with 24/hour access.
- Get certificates for completed courses that show up on my LinkedIn profile.
- It provides a wide range of courses to choose from (beginner to expert level).
- Introduce live courses with instructors teaching you in real-time and answering questions.
- Make it possible to “meet” other people who are currently taking the same course.
- Currently, Lynda has a monthly subscription plan. Per course payment option should be available.
October 15, 2019
The best way to "level up" your employees
LinkedIn Learning was available to individuals to further develop their skills in UX design. It was never required, however, it was available as an option along with several other resources including books. Most of us were newer to UX design at the time, so Lynda was a great resource to really help level up our skills through quality courses.
- LinkedIn Learning offers several courses covering a wide range of topics.
- The courses are engaging and enjoyable.
- The pricing model isn't very good for individuals wanting to take just one course.
March 27, 2019
Lynda.com is such a great investment
At a higher education institute, Lynda.com is available to students and staff for professional and personal development. Lynda.com is available across the whole institution.
- Lynda.com has a variety of courses that can be applicable to anyone.
- The cost of use is free for us in our institution.
- There is access to different supplemental resources in each course.
- Lynda.com can be overwhelming at times and the resources are not always organized in a conducive manner for learning.
- I think there is room for additional courses on certain topics like how to use statistical packages such as R, Stata, SAS.
January 03, 2019
lynda.com - The missing link for corporate training
Our subscription to Lynda.com is used across the firm. Historically, the training offered at DHG has been primarily ILT (instructor-led training) that are offered in classrooms at set dates and times. So if a team member needed to learn a skill but the training wasn't available for several months, there was no option for them besides reading a book. Lynda.com provides a variety of on-demand classes that employees can access from the comfort of their computers at a time that suits their schedule.
- The technical training is particularly useful. Technology changes so quickly - I've noticed that some of our ILT providers are out of date. Lynda.com usually has training on the most recent version of the software.
- Those who've attained their PMP (Project Management Professional) designation, need to continue to earn a certain number of PDUs (Professional Development Units) to maintain their certification. Lynda.com has a wide variety of training (at least 100+ hours) of relevant PDUs.
- In addition to the technical training, Lynda.com offers soft skills classes too. From communication to management to meditation.
- The biggest challenge that we have with Lynda.com is that the courses don't yet adhere to the AICPA/NASBA training standards -so they aren't eligible for CPE (Continuing Professional Education) credits - which are needed to maintain CPA (Certified Public Accounting) licenses. If a CPA has a choice between taking mediocre training that helps them learn something AND has CPE associated with it OR taking a good class that doesn't let them earn CPE, human nature dictates they'll take the so-so class with the CPE.
- As of 2016, there were about 42,000 accounting firms in the United States. If Lynda.com got its classes to be CPE-worthy, there's a wide variety of people who would take more of the training and a lot more potential revenue for Lynda.com. If heard Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn CEO - who bought Lynda.com) share his goal of expanding the world's wisdom (and compassion). Getting the Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning library to adhere to those AICPA/NASBA training standards is a simple way to achieve that goal.
- While the technical training generally includes practice files and activities, some of the soft skills training could be more interactive. While videos of instructors talking to you can provide a baseline of information, more can be done to have the students interact with the content - and do practice activities and/or action planning. The more students engage with the content, the more likely they are to retain and apply their newfound knowledge.
- When classes are updated to a newer version, the title - and corresponding deep link - changes too. This is challenging when you have curriculum roadmaps that point to certain classes. It would be nice if the title and link stayed the same - so that we don't constantly have to update links.
December 26, 2018
Great educational resource
Lynda.com is an amazing instructional, educational website. We have contracted with Lynda to serve up instructional videos that our internal staff and administrators use on a regular basis. We use it for enhancing our workforce's skill sets.
- Lynda.com has a wide range of instructional training videos on a lot of different subjects.
- The training videos can be watched as one-off or users can enroll in specific courses giving them more in-depth knowledge about the specific studying material.
- Filtering through the content by searching on specific tags can sometimes reveal erroneous results, and video content can quickly become outdated.
December 17, 2018
Excellent educational resource
At my previous position at a state university, we initially signed up with Lynda.com to provide training videos for employees and staff. Lynda.com has a huge collection of educational material that is accessible in a very interactive manner. Following the success of the website with employees we rolled out a campus initiative to allow access to students as well. It was a huge success and we gained lots of positive feedback for that.
- Has a huge collection of training videos and courses.
- Videos are appropriately tagged and all helper files for following along with the course are available for download.
- Overall, the content available through the website is sufficiently large for most users. However, I did feel as if the website did not have the latest courses on newer or upcoming technologies in the software development field.
December 11, 2018
Lynda is the world standard for video tutorials.
Lynda is one of the best one stop shops for learning new software. Lynda's unique relationship with some of the world's best professionals lets them create great learning videos that can't be matched. We use it in our on-boarding process at my work for new employees or existing employees expanding to new Adobe products.
- LOTS of topics. There is almost an unlimited number of videos on topics. You can watch hundreds of hours of tutorials if you so wished.
- Live-captions available, or you can read all of it.
- Industry expert authors/instructors -- you're learning from people with pedigree.
- Different results depending on each person's learning style or each expert's teaching style. Like in school, not all match-ups will be beneficial and totally, completely informational.
December 03, 2018
Lynda: The Best System for Personal or Professional Development
Currently, Lynda is being used for department-wide professional development. We have been focusing on specific topic areas that would help us be better professionals and educators. For example, a topic we as a department were trained on was Emotional Intelligence. Our HR rep took us through a couple of modules and we were tasked with finishing modules at home to complete the course. You can see a large difference in decision making and intentional conversations that staff members have had post-Lynda training.
Lynda has helped solve the issue of providing amazing professional development for staff members with a limited department budget. Lynda offers a wide range of modules that can be taken in a group setting or at-home.
Lynda has helped solve the issue of providing amazing professional development for staff members with a limited department budget. Lynda offers a wide range of modules that can be taken in a group setting or at-home.
- Lynda is user-friendly, even for those who are not as tech-savvy. This enables staff members of all ages to be able to participate in training leaving the feeling of confusion behind.
- Lynda offers a wide variety of learning courses to its users. This is especially important for business who rely on Lynda for professional development opportunities.
- Lynda is cost effective and makes the larger business money when they subscribe. Lynda provides an avenue for businesses to invest in their professionals which can help increase business outcome and even increase revenue.
- Not too many cons other than some course certifications do require payment.
November 20, 2018
Great learning tool. Feels like YouTube with a business focus
We use lynda.com for training and development across the entire company. Beefs up knowledge for individuals or entire groups, and even improves the possibility of intra-company job transfers. It's easy to share a good course with a colleague who may struggle with office politics or understanding data analytics.
- Certificates of Completion. New feature that does what you think.
- Videos at a faster pace! There are a lot of speakers and topics conducive to making that 2 hour course take only 90 minutes. Love that!
- LOTS of topics.
- Live-captions available, or you can read all of it.
- I actually can't think of anything bothersome, not even interface problems. It works great.
lynda.com is being utilized throughout our organization. It helps us tackle the problem of time, relevancy, and customization as it related to professional development. lynda.com adds a plethora of learning options for a myriad different disciplines. Whether you're a software engineer or a corporate executive, lynda.com has options that provide self-directed learning for them and everyone in between.
- Industry expert authors/instructors - you're learning from people with pedigree.
- Breadth and depth of catalog - not only is there a wide range of topics and disciplines, but there are frequently several levels of depth within each (eg. Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced).
- Time needed to complete each course AND each section of a course are included - you know what you're getting into from the first click.
- Knowledge checks are infrequent - as of this writing, they have begun to beta-test adding in a "How much do you know?" knowledge check at the beginning of some courses.
March 30, 2018
LYNDA.COM > Great Learning Product!
Currently, my organization is not utilizing Lynda.com, nor the departments. I personally utilize it for educational purposes to either refresh previous training in programming, infrastructure, or business practices. I do have plans to have plans to recommend it as an avenue of re-education or continued education in-line with certifications that would be utilized in the current industry.
- Concise video segments that allow for easier knowledge absorption.
- Associated with the continued education process for all manner of certifications and knowledge obtainment.
- The continually updated knowledge base to choose from in the Lynda Library.
- Needs more options for practical examinations for learning paths.
- Options for Audio only learning.
- Upon successful completion of an examination, I would like to see discounts available for CE. This, I understand, is dependent upon partners.
February 28, 2018
Lynda: Must Have Self-Discipline To Use
We used lynda.com in my previous organization as a counterpart and aid to media marketing, specifically used for people not involved in the production who needed to get up to speed on projects, software, certain tasks, etc. Lynda was used as an introduction and informative partner in various types of media, particularly video production.
- An in-depth tutorial, training, and reviews.
- An influx of information and specialists/experts available to help.
- Online courses for a multitude of topics—we're talking hundreds of videos.
- Able to take this on the go. Don't have to be in a desk at work to use lynda.com.
- Different results depending on each person's learning style or each expert's teaching style. Like in school, not all matchups will be beneficial and totally, completely informational.
- Sometimes the videos can be long, which means it can be easy to get distracted/not pay attention. Sometimes long videos are warranted, sometimes they're not. Lynda is best for candidates with the self-discipline to stay committed.
February 06, 2018
Concise review of lynda.com
We use it for mostly business productivity applications training. Any graphics design training needs we need have also been met with lynda.com. The entire organization has a login by the department. Now, lynda.com has expanded into many areas of programming and IT operations support and applications.
- Their customer service is superb. They have always been willing to solve any technical challenges and follow-up.
- The sale representative always contacts me ahead of time in the renewal window. He does everything to help.
- Their site is well designed, easy to administer, and it is easy to track learning paths.
- When they were acquired by LinkedIn, the next invoice barely noted the invoice was for Lynda.com. I at first thought it was a phishing attempt using LinkedIn as a front.
- The invoice should be from the lynda.com domain and NOT from LinkedIn.
- Account administrators should be able to change passwords, and see passwords, for the license entities they manage. Also, all email notices to users should be duplicated to account administrators.
December 13, 2017
Review of lynda.com
Lynda.com is used as a resource for software training for both instructors and students. It is used by all areas of studies as the website contains numerous software training that is relevant to the courses offered at the Art Institute. Lynda.com also provides completion certificates that instructors can use to apply as professional development points.
- The training is clear, you can access it on any device.
- The instruction covers all areas of the software in question. It is updated on a regular basis to keep up with software updates.
- Files from the course can be downloaded and used for practice.
- Able to link students directly to another valuable resource for learning (only the free videos)
- Lynda.com pretty much covers all of what I need.
- The only thing is that it is not free and many students don't have the means to subscribe to the training. Perhaps a student price?