LinkedIn Learning

I have obtained MULTIPLE FREE certifications through LinkedIn learning! & I don't mean pointless certs that anyone could take with their eyes closed lol. I've literally received proof of passing courses, which look HELLA GOOD on a resume! Don't sleep on the free trainings. They can elevate your career, mindset, as well as overall outlook on life and where you want it to take you! Forever grateful for the opportunity to learn about practically anything under the sun, at a self paced rate, and also receive a certification and optional badge to embed into websites, social media, display directly on your LinkedIn profile, etc! You never know who's watching & may reward you for investing your time and energy into taking the initiative to learn a skill (or ten lol) on your own!

This review is not regarding the content of Lynda now LinkedIn learning. This is regarding the app. And oh boy is it a disappointment! I have just come from the Lynda app which is light years ahead and it is beyond me that LinkedIn did not rename it and use that app! Simple things such as landscape mode not being available. I thought it must be some setting that I was missing but found when googling for a solution that this ‘problem’ has existed since 2015!! That is 3 years and is inexcusable. Just as it is inexcusable to be told we are working on it or some such standardized fob off as I can see has been the repetitive response here when people have expressed their concerns. Responses like that indicate strongly that one can expect an equally poor service. Likewise being able to see the videos on TV. Lynda had an app for Apple TV simple, efficient and it worked. Needless to say when an app like this is so primitive it can’t even function in landscape mode I feared the worst. And my fears were confirmed no streaming or easy possibilities for watching videos on smart TV’s Come ON LinkedIn! You can do better than this. If you won’t use the Lynda app then engage one of the many programmers doing courses on LinkedIn Learning to either give YOU lot a quick course on how to program this app, or let them create the app! So the short and the long: if you still have access to your Lynda app do NOT give it up you will truly regret it. As for the rest unfortunately you are stuck with this but you will at least not be experiencing the massive downgrade that those of us who are used to the Lynda app suffer. A sloppy and clumsy app, what a disappointment.

If you’re looking for a lecture, it’s decent. I have a free membership thru my work enterprise, which, honestly, is the only reason I use it. I don’t see ANYTHING with this app that makes it better value than lecture based competitors like udemy, courses, etc. If you want to learn a technical skill this app is extremely difficult to use. Lecture exercises can be files up to 2gb -zipped-. So in addition to taking forever to download, I found the exercise files I pretty useless. It’s a swivel chair nightmare and there is no time built in or guides that even tell you when to open the exercises. Additionally, the files I’ve seen are more samples than actual exercises to go thru. Many don’t even have instructions enclosed. I’d much rather get a copy of the PowerPoints the instructors use (which, oddly, seems to be the only thing omitted from giant exercise files) or cheat sheets to help me in the real world. Having a format where student can practice and learn-by-doing (a la Codecademy, even lightbot) would be ideal, but I realized this is a lot of work and MONEY that probably won’t be invested. Shame.