LinkedIn Learning is an American website offering video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. It was founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman as Lynda.com before being acquired by LinkedIn in 2015. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in December 2016.
LinkedIn Learning is a widely respected online platform offering a variety of high-quality courses across diverse subjects. It's popular for its flexibility, allowing users to learn at their own pace, and for its integration with LinkedIn profiles, which can boost professional opportunities. While it has strengths, some users may have specific areas where they feel it can be improved.
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As far as I know LinkedIn owns lynda.com and is owned by Microsoft, who also own Pluralsight. Can someone unconfuse me what's going on now?
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@gopietz taken a first look, this is lynda.com content, for the most part
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@gopietz Pluralsight is independent, not owned by Microsoft.
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@gopietz I'm not sure of their plans for the future, but right now my lynda courses (I have 3 published) are on both Linkedin Learning and lynda.com. I suspect they will phase out the lynda brand eventually, and expand the Linkedin content. (purely my opinion, no insider knowledge. They tell their authors only what we need to know! :)
Re: Pluralsight – they have a lot of Microsoft courses, but they are an independent company.
Last year, LinkedIn bought Lynda for $1.5 billion. It's a lot of money but makes a lot of sense. It gives them an opportunity to diversify revenue streams and market content to demos that are underrepresented on their platform today (e.g. college students).
There must be some fresh blood in product over at @LinkedIn, platform's coming out with some relevance now - rather than staying on that lazy river of ubiquity. Nice.
@evankimbrell would love to know more of your perspective and what you mean by, "re-skinning". Feel free to DM me if you feel convo is better suited there.
Thanks
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