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subscription fee to learn new skills. It was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015
and renamed LinkedIn Learning. In its heyday, Lynda was the go-to
destination for honing software skills—graphic design in particular. If you
needed to learn some technique in Photoshop or AutoCAD, Lynda could teach
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LinkedIn Learning, but the new site is chockablock with courses that teach
business skills, everything from management training to entrepreneurship.
LinkedIn Learning, which is available to all LinkedIn Premium subscribers,
has an incredibly wide range of content. The quality of courses is mixed,
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there to see if anything catches your interest. If you don’t already have one,
LinkedIn Learning probably isn’t a compelling enough service on its own to
warrant paying LinkedIn Premium’s fee. A membership makes sense only if
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