LinkedIn Learning to learn everyday skill required at workplace
Updated September 30, 2024

LinkedIn Learning to learn everyday skill required at workplace

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

LinkedIn Learning is used to learn emerging and used technologies in detail. It helps business by providing this platform to the resources so that they can learn the things directly and improve themself.

Pros

  • Course content is good
  • Short , Medium and long courses are available to learn
  • Certification on course completion which can be shared to showcase your skills

Cons

  • Topic or course based discussions
  • FAQ sections and way to get answers quickly from course creator
  • Adding more courses from other domains
  • Resources becomes skillful
  • Productivity has increased as weakness of resources are getting fulfilled through this platform
  • No separate server or website maintenance is needed to provide learning resource to employees which increases business focus.
Needs to add course linked assignment practices not just questions and answers but also actual coding compiler.
As compare to Pluralsight LinkedIn has much more short duration courses.

Do you think LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)'s feature set?

Yes

Did LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) again?

Yes

For example when organization is using Azure technology and new resource which is hired or existing resource who is not good in that, they can use LinkedIn Learning to learn this skill. It will be less appropriate in scenarios where an organisation has already have set courses available on their intranet site for resource improvement.

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) Feature Ratings

eLearning Content
7.7
Multi-Lingual Support
7
Structured Learning
9
Course Searches
8
Historical Metrics
7
Cloud-Based Content
7
Automation & Integration
8
Learning Management
7.1
Course authoring
7
Course catalog or library
7
Player/Portal
7
Learning content
7
Progress tracking & certifications
8
Learning reporting & analytics
7
Social learning
7

Using LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

500 - Linkedin learning is open to all staff right from directors ,mangers , developers to IT support, accounting and admin people. Overall it satisfies learning need within organization.
5 - Basic understanding of managing learning requests and providing access to the people whenever needed. This is particularly done from IT admin and HR department.
  • Opportunity to learn new technologies
  • Providing learning facility to new resources who are unaware of certain tools, technologies which are used within organization.
  • Providing enough resources to have innovation opportunity within organization.
  • Use of new technology like AI by learning
  • Improvement in management tools
  • Upgrading knowledge of existing tools and technologies.
  • Providing available courses link on linkedin learning whenever there is in house training
  • Updating employees about newly launched courses
  • Encouraging employees to learn to improve their skills
Integrated with linked profile hence no additional accounts are needs to maintained.
Course certification is provided which can be further showcased in skills section of profile.

Evaluating LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) and Competitors

  • Ease of Use
Linked to the employees existing profile and learned skills can be easily shared within network LinkedIn. Easy to have certification for completed courses.
1.Check whether platform user experience is good or not
2.Short , medium and long duration courses should be available.
3.Assignment should have platform in between courses like compliers.

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) Implementation

By implementation we are able to achieve
1.Skill improvement
2.Reduced burden on training staff
3.Learning new market leading technologies like Generative AI.
  • Implemented in-house
  • Should be within budget
  • Should be well recognised
  • Taking user experience during trail period

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) Training

Configuring LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Even though I was not part of configuration , but from configuration I have observed LinkedIn Learning access was properly managed in group of employees through configuration.
Yes - we have customized the interface extensively - Recommended courses within organization were configured on UI in separate section.
No - we have not done any custom code

LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) Support

Never contacted support team as it is been handled by different team.
ProsCons
Knowledgeable team
Support cares about my success
Slow Initial Response
No I haven't purchased premium support.
Support is handled by different team.

Using LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Consistent
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Tracking in progress courses
  • Searching specific type of courses
  • Newly launched courses
  • Assignments within courses
  • Variation of courses from same topic
  • Number of course creators are less
Yes - Even though its good but desktop experience is better than this.

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