LinkedIn Sharpens Education Focus: Self-Serve Widget Lets Users Add Certifications While On Other Sites | TechCrunch

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-25

Summary:

"LinkedIn — the social network for the working world — has been working on launching various tools to increase the usefulness and engagement of its platform to its 300m+ users. Today sees the launch of the latest of these. LinkedIn is unveiling a self-service certification feature, aimed both at helping education businesses and institutions spread their name in a more legit way on the site, and for users to enhance their profiles at the same time. The news comes at the same time that I am hearing that LinkedIn at the very early stages of considering a pilot with online learning companies, where LinkedIn would act as a platform not just for people to show off their achievements, but to actually act as the place where users would do the work to get them, too. While conversations for online learning services are still in an early stage, the new service being announced today — with the catchy name of Add to Profile for Certifications — could be thought of as a brick in that longer road. It will let professional education providers integrate a certifications widgets on their sites, and LinkedIn users who have completed courses will, in turn, be able to add these to their own profiles as 'proof' of having completed a course, while still on that third-party site ..."

Link:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/20/linkedin-sharpens-focus-on-education-self-serve-widget-lets-users-add-certifications-to-profiles/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.tools oa.social_networks oa.moocs oa.linkedin oa.courseware

Date tagged:

11/25/2014, 07:44

Date published:

11/25/2014, 02:44