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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 part of LinkedIn Learning, has been widely used by individuals and organizations for a variety of educational purposes. Users have found it useful for personal development, such as refreshing previous training in programming, infrastructure, or business practices. It has also been utilized for business productivity applications training, including graphics design. Moreover, Lynda.com has expanded into programming and IT operations support, serving as a resource for software training for both instructors and students. Instructors have found value in the completion certificates offered by Lynda.com as professional development points. The software is not only used within the workplace but also outside of work to brush up on software skills and improve professional capabilities. Additionally, organizations have utilized Lynda.com for department-wide professional development, focusing on specific topic areas to enhance professional and educational skills. One of the key benefits of using Lynda.com is that it helps solve the issue of providing professional development with a limited budget. Whether it's learning Excel, project management, creative design, IT programming, or computer basics, users have found Lynda.com valuable in improving their skills in various areas. Furthermore, LinkedIn Learning, formerly known as Lynda.com, is available to all employees and encourages self-directed learning for various disciplines. With a wide range of courses and high-quality content available, LinkedIn Learning is seen as a valuable tool for learners of all ages.
Comprehensive Database: Many users have praised the database of trainings on lynda.com, stating that it is great and comprehensive. They appreciate the wide range of topics covered, providing ample learning resources for different needs.
Accurate and Efficient Search Feature: The accurate and efficient search feature on lynda.com has been highly appreciated by users. It allows them to quickly find the specific courses or topics they are looking for, saving them time and effort in their learning journey.
Availability of Exercise Material: Users have found the availability of exercise material on lynda.com to be very helpful. Some reviewers mentioned that depending on the course, these exercises can greatly reinforce their learning experience and enable them to apply the concepts in a practical manner.
Confusing User Interface: Many users have found the user interface of LinkedIn Learning to be confusing and counter-intuitive, making it difficult to navigate and use effectively.
Account Migration Issues: There have been numerous complaints about the account migration process to LinkedIn Learning not working properly. Users have expressed their dissatisfaction with the technical support, stating that they were unhelpful in resolving the issues faced during migration.
Lack of Clarity in Courses: Several users have expressed frustration with the lack of clarity and direction in the courses offered by LinkedIn Learning. They feel that there is a lack of clear learning outcomes, which hinders their ability to track progress and achieve specific goals.
Users commonly recommend .com as a training option when it is offered as part of a company-wide benefit or if individuals can commit to taking several courses per year. For small businesses, users suggest considering Udemy due to its lower-priced courses. It is also recommended to provide recommended content to help employees familiarize themselves with the system and periodically suggest additional training videos or series throughout the year. Furthermore, users advise encouraging employees to explore a wide range of trainings, even those not directly relevant to the business.
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Score 10 out of 10
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- Simple and didactic content
- Easy access
- Serves multiple people at the same time
- the search for specific subjects could be expanded, facilitating access
June 10, 2022
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Score 9 out of 10
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- 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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- 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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- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Technical training.
- Soft skills.
- Longer tracks for larger skill sets.
- Certifications.
- 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!
- 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
- 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!
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- 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.