{"id":65159,"date":"2018-11-09T09:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65159"},"modified":"2018-11-10T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:34:45","slug":"linkedin-learning-opens-its-platform-slightly-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/11\/09\/linkedin-learning-opens-its-platform-slightly-young\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn Learning Opens Its Platform (Slightly) [Young]"},"content":{"rendered":"

LinkedIn Learning Opens Its Platform (Slightly) <\/strong><\/a>— from edsurge by Jeff Young<\/p>\n

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A few years ago, in a move toward professional learning, LinkedIn\u00a0bought Lynda.com\u00a0for $1.5 billion, adding the well-known library of video-based courses to its professional social network. Today LinkedIn officials announced that they plan to open up their platform to let in educational videos from other providers as well\u2014but with a catch or two.<\/p>\n

The plan, announced Friday, is to let companies or colleges who already subscribe to LinkedIn Learning add content from a select group of other providers. The company or college will still have to subscribe to those other services separately, so it\u2019s essentially an integration\u2014but it does mark a change in approach.<\/p>\n

For LinkedIn, the goal is to become the front door for employees as they look for micro-courses for professional development.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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LinkedIn also announced another service for its LinkedIn Learning platform called Q&A, which will give subscribers the ability to pose a question they have about the video lessons they\u2019re taking. The question will first be sent to bots, but if that doesn\u2019t yield an answer the query will be sent on to other learners, and in some cases the instructor who created the videos.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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LinkedIn becomes a serious open learning experience platform<\/strong> <\/a>— from clomedia.com by Josh Bersin
\nLinkedIn is becoming a dominant learning solution with some pretty interesting competitive advantages, according to one learning analyst.<\/em><\/p>\n

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LinkedIn has become quite a juggernaut in the corporate learning market. Last time I checked the company had more than 17 million users, 14,000 corporate customers, more than 3,000 courses and was growing at high double-digit rates. And all this in only about two years.<\/p>\n

And the company just threw down the gauntlet; it\u2019s now announcing it has completely opened up its learning platform to external content partners. This is the company\u2019s formal announcement that LinkedIn Learning is not just an amazing array of content, it is a corporate learning platform. The company wants to become a single place for all organizational learning content.<\/p>\n

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LinkedIn now offers skills-based learning recommendations to any user through its machine learning algorithms.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Is there demand for staying relevant? For learning new skills?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>For reinventing oneself?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nSo…look out higher ed and traditional forms of accreditation — your window of opportunity may be starting to close. Alternatives to traditional higher ed continue to appear on the scene and gain momentum. LinkedIn — and\/or similar organizations in the future — along with blockchain and big data backed efforts may gain traction in the future and start taking away some major market share. If employers get solid performance from their employees who have gone this route…higher ed better look out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft\/LinkedIn\/Lynda.com are nicely positioned to be a major player who can offer society a next generation learning platform at an incredible price — offering up-to-date, microlearning along with new forms of credentialing. It’s what I’ve been calling the Amazon.com of higher ed<\/strong> (previously the Walmart of Education<\/a>) for ~10 years. It will take place in a strategy\/platform similar to this one.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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