{"id":319,"date":"2016-11-23T04:08:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=319"},"modified":"2016-11-23T04:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:08:34","slug":"linkedins-new-product-give-us-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/11\/23\/linkedins-new-product-give-us-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn\u2019s New Product Should Give Us Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>his fall LinkedIn introduced a new product that brings together courses from Lynda.com, an online-training company it purchased last year, and LinkedIn\u2019s rich data on job needs and job seekers. LinkedIn Learning, as it\u2019s called, essentially provides a recommendation engine for Lynda.com courses and video segments. As described <a href=\"https:\/\/learning.linkedin.com\/blog\/whats-new\/launching-linkedin-learning#!\">in a company blog post:<\/a> &#8220;We have a unique view of how jobs, industries, organizations and skills evolve over time. From this, we can identify the skills you need and deliver expert-led courses to help you obtain those skills. We\u2019re taking the guesswork out of learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a grand vision. To LinkedIn\u2019s credit, the company has not fallen for the &#8220;we\u2019re going to displace higher education&#8221; fantasies that powered the worst of the MOOC craze. But it\u2019s still stuck on the idea that idealized chunks of content are equivalent to learning.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the primary audience for LinkedIn Learning is job seekers and corporate trainers. But those of us in higher education should care. The challenges of better preparing students for their working lives and filling in skill gaps are ones that colleges and universities are also trying to meet, often through graduate schools or continuing-education departments. Lifelong learning is particularly important to alumni.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/A-Netflix-for-Education-\/238469\">Read the entire post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall LinkedIn introduced a new product that brings together courses from Lynda.com, an online-training company it purchased last year, and LinkedIn\u2019s rich data on job needs and job seekers. LinkedIn Learning, as it\u2019s called, essentially provides a recommendation engine for Lynda.com courses and video segments. As described in a company blog post: &#8220;We have&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/11\/23\/linkedins-new-product-give-us-pause\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}