UTS has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to provide access to free, self paced online learning for staff and students.
LinkedIn Learning is specifically designed to help achieve professional and personal goals regardless of your role, industry or sector with a library of over 16,000 expertly-produced online and consistently updated courses across 7 languages. UTS Staff and Students are empowered to develop the right skills by unlimited access to learning, anywhere and anytime.
Navigating LinkedIn Learning
There are a few ways your can explore all the options available to you. LinkedIn Learning is organised into learning on Business, Creative, Technology topics, formal certifications and UTS collections. You can view courses through:
- Role Guides: Information organised by role e.g., Product Manager or Data Scientist. You'll find foundational content and tools to help you understand, learn, and improve at the skills based on roles. Courses, skills and learning paths related to this role will be visible.
- Topics: This is information organised by topic e.g., Data Visualisation, Instructional Design, CRM Software or Accessibility. It usually includes a list of all the related courses to topic of choice allowing you to see them all at once.
- Software: Courses on commonly used programs, software and systems associated with the topic.
- Learning Paths: These are curated collections of courses on a specific topic/track/skill. They include multiple courses by different expert instructors to teach a variety of skills and information associated with that subject or profession. After completing a Learning Path, you’ll be able to download and share your accomplishment on your LinkedIn Profile.
- Use the How to Use LinkedIn Learning guide for more tips.
Access
View all courses by signing into LinkedIn Learning with your UTS email and password.
LinkedIn's Top 10 Courses for 2023
Goal Setting: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
What you’ll learn: It’s easier to reach a goal when you know your team is rowing in the same direction. The popular Objective and Key Results (OKRs) methodology of goal setting enables you and your team to work together to set clear, reachable goals. Instructor Jessie Withers will guide you through understanding the power of strategic goals through how to set, manage, and measure OKRs.
Length: 34mins
Access: Goal Setting: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) via LinkedIn Learning
Excel Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)
What you’ll learn: We have a lot of data at our fingertips these days. Being spreadsheet savvy can save you time and breathe new life into your data. Excel expert Dennis Taylor leads you through learning basic Excel skills such as organising data and performing calculations with simple functions, then introduces intermediate skills like building charts, PivotTables, and more.
Length: 2hrs 17mins
Access: Excel Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365) via LinkedIn Learning
Interpersonal Communication
What you’ll learn: Many of us are seeing new faces around the in-person or virtual workplace. Maybe you're a new face on the team! Dorie Clark’s course will help you navigate the communication side of these new interpersonal relationships. She offers advice and techniques for dealing with complex and nuanced situations like interruptions, receiving critical feedback, and communicating across cultures.
Length: 37mins
Project Management Foundations
What you’ll learn: We all have projects to manage – from our personal to-do lists to large-scale corporate projects. Regardless of the scope of work, Bonnie Biafore will teach you the fundamentals of project management such as establishing clear project goals and objectives, meeting deadlines, and closing out projects. Sprinkled throughout the course are tips on how to communicate effectively with your project team.
Length: 3hrs 20mins
Access: Project Management Foundations via LinkedIn Learning
Developing your Emotional Intelligence
What you’ll learn: Emotional intelligence is a skill that can–and should!–be learned. Executive coach and organisational psychologist Gemma Leigh Roberts will teach you what emotional intelligence is, why it’s important in the workplace, and how to work on honing your own emotional intelligence. Some areas she guides you through include how to become more self-aware about personal triggers and how to align your intentions and your impact so that you can build strong and collaborative relationships.
Length: 1hr
Access: Developing Your Emotional Intelligence via LinkedIn Learning
Essentials of Team Collaboration
What you’ll learn: Clear expectations and unified goals help teams collaborate more effectively. Join corporate trainer and author Dana Brownlee as she shares ways to keep teams in sync by exploring team members’ communication modes, clarifying team and individual purposes, and creating opportunities for collaborative work.
Length: 32mins
Access: Essentials of Team Collaboration via LinkedIn Learning
Learning Python
What you’ll learn: If you want to pick up one programming language, Python is it! This versatile, easy-to-learn, object-oriented language is used across many industries and in applications such as software engineering, AI, machine learning, and mobile app development. Developer Joe Marini unpacks basic Python syntax and shares an example of how to construct and run a simple Python program. You will also learn to work with dates and times, read and write files, and retrieve and parse HTML, JSON, and XML data from the web.
Length: 3hrs 10mins
Critical Thinking
What you’ll learn: Developing the ability to think reflectively and address root-cause issues will make you a better decision maker and a more reliable resource within your organisation. Leadership trainer and expert Mike Figliuolo outlines a series of techniques to help you develop your critical thinking skills by learning how to define the problem you’re trying to solve. Mike will then teach you a number of critical thinking methodologies that you can employ to better work through problems. He also provides guidance on how to develop this skill across your whole team.
Length: 59mins
Power BI Essential Training
What you’ll learn: Data is only as valuable as the insights it offers. Put your data to work with this course on how to use Power BI, the business analytics tools that allow you to create and share impactful visualisations with others in your organisation. In this course, Gini von Courter explains how to import data, create visualisations , and arrange those visualisations into reports. You will also learn how to use Power BI Mobile and how to use the data modelling capabilities in Power BI Desktop.
Length: 3hrs 24mins
Communicating with Confidence
What you’ll learn: Even the most gifted communicators can struggle with confidence, and confident individuals can find clear communication difficult. In this course, Jeff Ansell guides you through developing and honing this vital business skill. Topics covered include: how to organise your thoughts, how to use body language to better express ideas, and how to overcome anxiety.
Length: 1hr 16mins