LinkedIn Learning is an online education platform and one of the many resources you have at your disposal to enhance your teaching. This platform has a vast catalogue of courses that you may wish to use to supplement the teaching on your programme.
Here are some ideas of how you can do this:
- Adding courses to your Reading List- Using a course or video as required or recommended learning.
- Using a clip within your lecture- A good example of this would be for explaining a short concept if they have a particularly helpful visual.
- Flipped Learning- You could ask your class to complete a course or watch a chapter of a course ahead of a timetabled class, and then discuss that topic in the session. You can use it as the basis of a debate, to critically evaluate the content during the session, or use the knowledge to solve a problem that you set.
- Content mapping- You may want to go through your learning objectives, aims of the course, or Assessment Domains to identify areas that could be strengthened by using supplementary LinkedIn Learning courses. These could be skills such as Critical Thinking skills, Problem Solving skills, Research skills.
- Bridging gaps- You can use LinkedIn Learning as a resource to bridge common gaps that you have found students (or perhaps Direct Entry students) may have previously experienced coming into your course, or relevant skills that student may require a recap on. Some examples could be the basics of Microsoft Excel, Presenting with Confidence, or the Basics of CAD.
- Understanding student expectations- Asking students to find and complete a course they think is relevant at the start or midway through a module and tasking them with evaluating and explaining why they have learnt relevant skills. This can be a short piece, seminar preparation, or set before a unit perhaps over the summer.
- Use as inspiration- You could use LinkedIn Learning videos as examples in asking students to create similar content with video submissions as their assessment.
Before you start, please be aware:
- You must have reviewed any courses, chapters, or learning pathways that you recommend or require students to engage with.
- It is expected that material used within a lecture would not normally be longer than 12 minutes.
- LinkedIn Learning content must not replace contact time.
- Students will have to create an account in order to access content, this platform is also free for all students.
- More information on how you can create an account, or how your students can create accounts is available on the Staff Portal.
If you would like any advice on utilising LinkedIn Learning, help with Content Mapping, or with integrating it seamlessly into your teaching, please email the Academic Learning Enhancement Team.
