LinkedIn Learning (LIL)

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Last updated: Dec 16, 2024 by Susan Palmer
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LinkedIn Learning is an online training library providing high-quality instructional videos on software, creative, and business skills by industry experts.

Geneseo students, faculty, and staff have free access to over 24,000 courses. Courses are added weekly.  

What you can do with LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that can help you: 

  • Learn new skills: You can find courses on a range of topics, including business, technology, and creative skills. 

  • Tailor your learning experience: You can connect your LinkedIn profile to receive personalized recommendations based on your skills, interests, and learning history. 

  • Learn at your own pace: You can access courses online and offline on various devices. 

  • Earn certifications: You can earn certificates of completion and add them to your LinkedIn profile. 

  • Prepare for professional certification exams: You can prepare for certification exams and earn continuing education units (CEUs). 

  • Connect with others: You can interact with instructors, peers, and colleagues taking the same courses. 

  • Showcase your accomplishments: You can display your educational accomplishments, finished courses, and newly gained skills on your LinkedIn profile. 

Other Benefits of LinkedIn Learning include: 

  • Refreshing your knowledge of a previous class topic 

    • Learning about a new discipline 

    • Exploring business tips and tricks 

    • Improving your public speaking or writing skills 

    • Gaining knowledge of new software 

    • Managing stress, avoiding burnout, and improving your wellbeing 

    • Accessing exercise files, assessments, and transcripts for videos 

    • Providing feedback to courses 

Faculty/Staff/Students

  • Faculty: Supplement curricula and textbooks, embrace the flipped classroom model, learn skills to improve teaching

  • Staff: Keep up-to-date with the latest organizational approaches and technologies, learn new skills, and explore custom learning paths

  • Students: Explore hundreds of topics in design, photography, programming, data analysis, and marketing

Teaching & Pedagogy Tips

  • Assign tutorials for projects or coursework

  • Incorporate LinkedIn Learning in your syllabi

  • Provide tutorials to supplement a course

  • Align video content with a project you have assigned in class (e.g. if students are creating a multimedia project, they may need to watch videos using Photoshop or iMovie to complete the project)

  • Have students answer specific questions about the content in the video (e.g. there can be a set of guiding questions they can go through as they watch to help them understand the material better)

  • Have students ask questions or share notes about the content in the videos - take it a bit further and use tools such as the built-in note-taking tool for online discussions that can be shared with the whole class

  • Have students create a quick guide to using the tool they learned about in the video, to share with other students

  • Assign students sections to take notes on and share with the class, such as "most helpful tips."

  • Discussion forum: Post a reflection or an area for students to troubleshoot each other's questions.

  • Don't quiz students on the videos. Students may already know the technology and the LinkedIn Learning video tutorial shouldn't be mandatory unless used for a necessary (and authentic) task. 

  • LinkedIn Learning tutorials should be viewed as self-help, point-of-need tools rather than a part of the curriculum, unless it is a basic computer science course, or in a scenario where the video would be essential to student learning.

Professional Development

  • Develop employee performance objectives that include LinkedIn Learning courses

  • Access work-related learning opportunities to enhance performance and career development

LinkedIn Learning Help (includes links for online chat and email)

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