LinkedIn started opening up special, verified profile pages to universities and colleges a few years ago and encouraging younger users to get started building LinkedIn profiles as young as 13 to get started. It also provides a coda to LinkedIn’s efforts in trying to court higher education facilities. Building on that as a place to also enhance your professional skills makes a lot of sense. LinkedIn’s emphasis on education and learning goes hand-in-hand with the company’s primary role today as a place where many people go to create and maintain their professional profiles publicly, and to look for jobs. LinkedIn says it will soon be releasing an enterprise tier so that large companies can take subscriptions for their entire employee base, LinkedIn said today. LinkedIn education is available for LinkedIn Premium subscribers who look like they will get 25 new courses every week based on information on the site. Subjects taught through the service include business, technology and creative topics, with courses running the gamut from programming skills to writing and accounting.Ĭourses can be both selected by employees as well as recommended by employers and their HR managers who can use LinkedIn’s analytics products to both monitor employees progress but also look at the wider range of what is being studied as a point of reference, and curators at LinkedIn itself. A large part of LinkedIn Learning is based on Lynda content, and goes live with some 9,000 courses on offer.
The new site was unveiled today in LinkedIn’s offices in San Francisco, and it comes about a year and a half after LinkedIn acquired online learning site for $1.5 billion. The company has launched a new site called LinkedIn Learning, an ambitious e-learning portal tailored to individuals, but also catering to businesses looking to keep training their employees, and beyond that even educational institutions exploring e-learning courses. LinkedIn, the social network for the working world that now has some 450 million members and is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion, today took the wraps off its newest efforts to expand its site beyond job hunting and recruitment, its two business mainstays.
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