LinkedIn has opened the doors to a suite of free AI courses via its learning portal, after discovering that most companies are failing staff when it comes to AI upskilling.
There’s no escaping AI. It’s infiltrating every facet of our lives at an alarming pace, including the workplace. It could also be the key to your job satisfaction – our own annual report discovered that 59% of people who use AI experience greater job satisfaction.
We take a look at what courses LinkedIn is offering, and when you need to enrol by.
LinkedIn Offers Hundreds of Free AI Courses
This week, LinkedIn released its LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report. As you can imagine, AI featured heavily in the report, with four out of five people stating that they want to learn more about AI for their profession.
However, LinkedIn’s report discovered a discrepancy between what employees wanted, and what employers were offering. Just 38% of US executives surveyed stated that they were helping their staff become AI-literate.
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It seems for a lot of us, if we want to learn, we’ll need to do it on our own time, which is why LinkedIn has decided to offer 250 AI courses to LinkedIn members for a limited time, for free!
Accessing the courses on LinkedIn Learning couldn’t be easier. LinkedIn has removed the pay barrier entirely from these AI courses, making them available to all. All you need to do is click on them and start learning! We’ve listed a few highlights below.
LinkedIn AI Courses Available
Sifting through 250 AI courses might seem daunting, but they are broken up into subject areas on the LinkedIn Learning Hub, and users can also narrow them down by skill level. Speaking of skill, there really is something here for everyone, from those wanting to start at the basics, all the way to advanced courses designed to supplement your existing AI knowledge.
It’s also worth noting that these courses are available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Here’s a run down of some of the courses available and what you can expect:
Introductory AI Courses
- Building AI Literacy – This is a greater choice for those just starting out with AI. It consists of six modules, and should take you around six hours to complete. Along the way you’ll learn how to boost productivity, how to create prompts, and general explainers about AI terminology.
- Develop Your Prompt Engineering Skills – This course is designed to help users communicate with AI models. Prompts are key to getting the most out of AI, and during this six module, four hour course, you’ll learn how to talk to AIs, understanding prompt hacking, and data analysis.
- Responsible AI Foundations – This six module course clocks in and almost ten hours, and during that time you’ll learn the principles of responsible AI, how to apply them practically, and the “tools for building fairness into AI systems.”
- Integrating Generative AI into Business Strategy – A good explainer into using AI in your business strategy, this course is a breezy 36 minutes, and, in the course maker’s own words is a “a comprehensive guide for decision makers to understand, assess, and implement generative AI effectively in their organization.”
- Building Career Agility and Resilience in the Age of AI – Another short one, this 30 minute course, created by technology journalist and analysist, Chris Shipley, helps users adapt to AI in the workplace, develop an AI -friendly skill set and diversify their network.
Role Specific Courses
- Build AI Aptitude as a Senior Manager – This four hour course is designed for senior managers to help them make decisions about when and how to use AI at their company.
- Building Generative AI Skills for Business Pros – Designed for business leaders, this seven module, six hour course covers how to research and write with AI, creating images, and boosting productivity.
- Building Generative AI Skills for Creative Professionals – This is a lengthy 18 hour course, but by the end you’ll have a firm grasp on using AI to help with brainstorming, streamline processes, and generally increase creativity.
- Building Generative AI Skills for Developers – A ten module, 11 hour course that is aimed at helping developers understand how AI can help them level up their day to day processes.
- Generative AI, Recruiting, and Talent Acquisition – A quick 30 minute course that is intended to explain how AI can help companies with their recruitment processes.
- Leveraging Generative AI in Finance and Accounting – At under an hour, this course helps explain how AI can impact accounting automation, and financial forecasting.
- ChatGPT for Web Developers – A 2.5 hour course intended for web developers, that offers advice on using ChatGPT to debug code, generating display data on a web page, building a password generator, and more.
AI for Power Users Courses
- Develop Your Skills with the OpenAI API – An explainer of OpenAI’s capabilities, and how to build your own powerful AI applications.
- Hands-On Projects for OpenAI-Powered Apps – A six hour course that helps users get to grips with creating their own apps on the OpenAI platform.
- Hands-On AI: Building LLM-Powered Apps – At just over an hour, by the end of this course you’ll have a good overview of the fundamentals of LLMs, and how to incorporate them into your apps.
- Generative AI: Introduction to Large Language Models – A one hour course that talks users through the key LLMs developed since the introduction of GPT-3.
- Machine Learning with Python: Foundations – A two hour course that sets out to help users get started with machine learning, including examples based on Python.
- Build Your Own GPTs – A 46 minute course that will help students understand how to build AI applications, without any coding.
These are only a fraction of the courses available via LinkedIn learning. There are also more that cover subjects such as:
- Securing the Use of Generative AI in Your Organization
- Google Cloud Professional for Machine Learning Essential Training
- SQL Server Machine Learning Services: Python
- AI Workshop: Hands-On with GANs with Deep Convolutional Networks
Take a look at the full range of courses available on the LinkedIn Learning hub.
When you complete any of the free courses, you’ll receive certification from LinkedIn, that you can use to show off your new skills.
Remember that these courses are only free for a limited time, available through April 5th.
If you’re looking for more free AI courses, there are plenty being offered, included from establishments such as Harvard, Microsoft and Google. See the full range in our extensive guide.
