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LinkedIn Launches Learning Platform

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September 23, 2016

LinkedIn on Thursday unveiled its own learning platform, which its paying members can use to learn new skills and make themselves more attractive to potential employers. LinkedIn Learning features about 9,000 existing courses from Lynda.com, which the professional networking site acquired last year, and plans to add about 25 new courses a week. The company also plans to launch an enterprise version of the platforms, which employers will be able to use to recommend courses to their employees.

Carl Straumsheim

Carl Straumsheim, Technology Correspondent, joined Inside Higher Ed in 2013. He got his start in journalism as a video game blogger for Norway's third largest paper, Dagbladet, at age 15, and has since dabbled in media criticism, investigative reporting and political coverage. Straumsheim (pronounced STROMS-hyme) boasts that he once received a perfect score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language, which enabled him to pursue a bachelor's degree in English from LaGrange College and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland at College Park.