About LinkedIn Learning

What is LinkedIn Learning?

LinkedIn Learning is an online skills development service offering an extensive library of over 21,000 high-quality video courses in business, creative and technical skills. The University of Edinburgh provides all staff and students with free access to LinkedIn Learning. 

All LinkedIn Learning courses are available in high definition (HD), fully transcribed, delivered by industry experts, and can be downloaded for offline viewing via the LinkedIn Learning mobile app.

Whether you're a beginner or intermediate, looking to develop existing skills or learn something new, LinkedIn Learning can help you learn at a time and place convenient to you. 

Entitlement

LinkedIn Learning is available to all University of Edinburgh students and staff. Students who have yet to matriculate and alumni will not be able to access the service.  You can find out more about creating your free LinkedIn Learning account on our account creation and service access web page.

Using LinkedIn Learning to help develop your skills

LinkedIn Learning allows you to:

• Develop your business, creative and technology skills
• Plan your development, and track your course history and recent activity
• Bookmark your favourite videos and courses to return to at a convenient time 
• Earn certificates of course completion which can be downloaded, shared or published to your LinkedIn profile
• Connect to your LinkedIn profile for a more personalised recommendations-based learning experience 
• Download and view videos and courses offline via the LinkedIn Learning mobile app

Ideas for using LinkedIn Learning within the University

LinkedIn Learning provides many possibilities for users within our University, including:

Developing staff skills

• Developing the digital skills and capabilities of our workforce, enabling staff to play an active role in digital transformation and keep up to date with new technology
• Enhancing curricular teaching by supporting digital classroom technologies
• Helping managers to support staff development and reviews by signposting a broad range of development opportunities for their staff
• Encouraging career development by mapping online courses to professional development frameworks
• Assisting in software and systems rollouts
• Enabling learning and development professionals to provide resources across a wider subject range, offer an alternative to classroom-based delivery and provide immediate help to those on waiting lists
• Reducing spend on external training courses by offering a just-in-time online alternative
• Providing staff with new knowledge and skills to help them work effectively and efficiently in a hybrid working environment

Developing student skills

• Enabling students to take ownership of their development
• Developing digital skills and capabilities and keeping up to date with new technology
• Developing professional and employability skills
• Increasing the visibility of achievements by encouraging students to download course completion certificates or post them to their LinkedIn profile
• Offering a wider range of learning opportunities to enhance the student experience

Supplementing curricular teaching

• Teaching both campus-based and distance students
• Encouraging focused learning by creating and assigning playlists to students that are relevant to your teaching and course programme
• Teaching technical and presentation skills outside of the classroom
• Flipping the classroom and supporting hybrid learning
• As pre-work or an add-on to course reading lists
• Linking from Learn to relevant courses in LinkedIn Learning (integration coming soon)

If you would like to discuss how you, your team, department, School or College could benefit from using LinkedIn Learning, contact Andy Todd (LinkedIn Learning Service Manager) via email (andy.todd@ed.ac.uk) for a chat.