The first group includes Harvard Business Publishing (e.g. The content in this first wave of third-party providers feels like a natural extension of the influencer-based content that LinkedIn has been running in its main newsfeed: it runs the gamut from actual courses to learn new skills in specific disciplines, to the more nebulous area of professional development. Notably, he also said that LinkedIn itself is not planning on curtailing the amount of content it will continue to produce for Learning: it’s currently adding more than 70 new courses each week on average, he said.
Over time, this could expand to be a public API for anyone to integrate content, he added, but for now, LinkedIn is doing the curating. James Raybould, the director of product for LinkedIn Learning, said that the third-party expansion will come slowly at first, with a handful of partners getting access to integrate with LinkedIn Learning. Today, LinkedIn tells me that it has around 11,000 enterprise customers it doesn’t break out how much traffic it has overall on LinkedIn, but says that there has been a 64 percent growth in paid learners since the start of 2017 - a number that it’s clearly looking to boost with these new features. Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning comes when a person pays for LinkedIn’s Premium Career tier, which costs around $30/month, or when a company takes an enterprise team subscription for the Learning service.
And in a social twist, people who use LinkedIn Learning - the students and teachers - will now be able to ask and answer questions around LinkedIn Learning sessions, as well as follow instructors on LinkedIn, and see others’ feedback on courses. It will now offer videos, tutorials and courses from third-parties such as Treehouse and the publishing division of Harvard Business School. Now, with 13,000 courses on the platform, LinkedIn is announcing two new developments to get more people using the service. LinkedIn, the Microsoft- owned social network for the working world with some 580 million users, took a big step into professional development and education when it acquired for $1.5 billion and used it as the anchor for LinkedIn Learning.
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