LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that provides video courses taught by industry experts in a wide range of software, creative, and professional skills. Current students can access LinkedIn Learning via the small video icon on the top of your LinkedIn page. Make sure you are using your umass.edu email address to login.
What is LinkedIn Learning?
LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps you discover and develop business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos.
With more than 5,000 courses and personalized recommendations, you can discover, complete, and track courses related to your field and interests. You can also choose to add these courses and related skills to your LinkedIn profile once you've completed them.
To further enhance your learning experience, many of the courses come equipped with exercise files and assessments, and transcripts for the video. You can also use LinkedIn Learning to provide feedback to courses, and view and download videos offline.
How to Find Recommended Courses
Recommendations are LinkedIn Learning courses recommended for you based on your position and other profile details, such as your learning history and skills you’re interested in. (See Related tasks section below.)
You can find a list of recommended courses in the Recommended for you section of your LinkedIn Learning homepage.
You can use the recommended courses to:
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Understand what skills could help you grow in your career.
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Find Learning content that you might otherwise might not come across.