Get a rundown of the latest tech trends from our very own LinkedIn staff instructors. Whether you're a software engineer wondering if a new feature or update is worth your time—or a technology manager determining which services or products to adopt—this course offers the information you need to quickly assess emerging trends.

Each video works as a stand-alone explainer, so you can watch the course in order or cherry-pick your favorites. Get insights on hot topics like facial recognition, Android apps on Windows 11, and much more. And as exciting new technologies emerge, we’ll add new videos to this course to keep you on the cutting edge.

Even if the only thing you know about SEO is what the letters S, E, and O stand for, you probably know that good content on your website only goes so far when it comes to improving visibility. In order to maximize ROI and increase leads to your business, you need technical search engine optimization. In this course, Dana DiTomaso shows how to optimize your website for SEO by looking at how crawlers work, strategies for increasing site speed, using schema, architecture, URLs, and image/video to your SEO advantage. In addition to the actual nuts and bolts of SEO, Dana also covers the importance of making concrete recommendations to web developers, so you can actually get the fixes implemented.

Many of the technology courses in our library focus on how to make things. But sometimes, designers and developers need to pause, look around, and evaluate how the things they make affect the people who'll end up using them. "What's best for our users?" can be a difficult question when mixed with other organizational priorities. In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen provides concrete approaches for evaluating and acting on the ethical questions technologists encounter constantly. He provides a framework for ethics in tech, discusses matters related to privacy and security, explains how to discover and define virtues, and more.

Do you need to build a following or grow your community? No matter how many facts you rally in support of a cause, they will never hold the same weight as a well-told story. In this course, Michael Kass, founder of StoryImpact, explains how to identify and craft your story in order to create change in the world. Learn about the different types of stories that can be told and the key ingredients of a successful story. Discover how to structure your elements into a story that engages your audiences and rallies them around your call to action, whether that’s to donate, volunteer, or simply spread the word. Finally, discover different ways to deploy your story, both online and in person.

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Grabbing people's attention on the internet is getting harder and harder. Simple text and static photos just don't cut it in such a cluttered space. In this course, you learn how to use video, motion graphics, and 360-degree imagery to create eye-catching content. Rich Harrington takes you through a dozen step-by-step projects that feature dynamic media—from the deceptively simple slideshow to meme-worthy animated GIFs to attention-grabbing videos for TikTok—and require nothing more than a camera or smartphone and a subscription to Adobe CC and a few downloadable apps. Each project can be exported in a format that's easy to share online and on social media. By the end of the course, you'll have several options for building your next web project, whether it's to demo a product, draw attention to a cause, or promote a brand online.

The Test Automation with Python series from Headspin University is designed to teach automation skills and tools for testing applications in Appium and Selenium, the world's most popular UI automation tools. But before getting into the automation itself, this first course delves into the concept of testing, from the etymology of the word, to how to design useful tests for your software. While using software as it is meant to be run seems like an obvious test, it’s also helpful and necessary to imagine conditions for the software that its developers might not have thought about. The history of automation is also covered, highlighting the fact that most software is in fact a form of automation. After this course, you’ll have a solid foundation of automated testing and be ready to move on to the next course in the series.

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This installment of the Test Automation with Python takes a look at scaling your test suite so that you can run multiple tests at a time. Eventually your test suite will grow large enough that waiting for tests to complete one by one just doesn’t make sense. This course covers the complications that come with running multiple tests in parallel and details what you need to successfully run your test suite. And while running your tests in an isolated environment is an important part of the process, this course demonstrates the importance of testing them out in a continuous integration environment as well. The course finishes with techniques for debugging your tests, along with best practices for speed, reliability, and maintainability in your test suite.

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This second course in the Test Automation with Python series focuses on writing code to automate software testing. As opposed to no-code tests where you record your actions in an app for later playback, writing code for automation gives you more flexibility in many cases, such as when a small change to the app causes the testing process to change. This course also explains the choice of Python as the programming language. While Java is probably the most popular language used with Selenium and Appium, it can lead to unnecessary complexity and confusion unless you know it well. Python, meanwhile, is powerful, simple, and expressive, and in some ways is more flexible in terms of executing UI test automation. This course walks you through the entire process, from installing Python, to writing your first script, all the way through completion, testing, and troubleshooting your code.

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Used correctly, Appium and Selenium can be a powerful force for testing web and mobile apps. This course is part of a series from HeadSpin University that walks you through fundamental concepts of software testing, programming, and ultimately UI automation with Appium and Selenium. This course specifically covers the WebDriver protocol and how you can use it with Appium and Selenium. Learn about the client/server architecture of WebDriver, REST APIs, protocol extensions and clients in Appium, as well as drivers in both Appium and Selenium.

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Used correctly, Appium and Selenium can be a powerful force for testing web and mobile apps. This course is part of a series from HeadSpin University that walks you through fundamental concepts of software testing, programming, and ultimately UI automation with Appium and Selenium. This course specifically covers installation and setup. The course begins with how to set up a working Java environment on your development machine. It explores how to download, install, and set up your development environment for Selenium, as well as how to get Appium set up in your local environment. With coding dependencies installed, the course concludes with how to set up your coding environment and start coding your app with Appium and Selenium.

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In this installment of the Test Automation with Python, the focus turns from automation to testing. Learn what it means to think like a tester and how to design and run tests on the automation you’ve created with Appium. Key topics covered include knowing what to test so you can run your tests more efficiently, setting up a test runner, working with the page object model, and testing the capabilities of your app on multiple platforms.

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In today's fast paced, constantly changing workplace, so much of our success comes down to our ability to influence colleagues, persuade co-workers, and get clients and customers to say yes to our ideas, proposals, and requests. But how can you become a more effective persuader? In this course, international best-selling author and persuasion researcher Steve Martin offers up ten proven ways to ethically and practically improve your ability to influence and persuade others at work, at home, and online. Join Steve as he shares his valuable information and action-orientated insights to help you develop and maximize your powers of influence and persuasion and get ready to hear more of the word "yes."

The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding is a practical, hands-on guide to the dos and don'ts of branding as expressed by 22 simple laws: the Law of Expansion, the Law of Contraction, the Law of Quantity, and more. These laws illuminate the all-too-common mistakes made by marketers and showcase the tricks of the trade used by the most successful brands to assert their dominance in ultra-competitive markets. Discover how to narrow your focus for maximum impact, grow intelligently, build trust, develop a powerful logo and brand name, and even reinvent a brand. With these tips, you can build your company, product, or service into a world-class, world-wide brand.

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Have you ever wished for a collection of useful sales and prospecting tips to help you sell more successfully? In this course, sales professional and prospecting coach Miles Croft provides easy-to-understand advice, with actionable and achievable techniques for selling more efficiently, delighting the customer, making the most of your time, avoiding common pitfalls, and much more. With over 50 tips, each one having its own learning objective, you can improve your sales and prospecting know-how by choosing a tip applicable to your specific situation or learning in the recommended order.

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Small things that are done well make a difference in your career, particularly if you’re in the role of a manager or leader. This audio-only course, adapted from The Art of Leadership by Michael Lopp, encourages all leaders—from new managers to experienced executives—to sweat the small stuff when hiring, delegating, managing meetings, handling crises, controlling rumors, and more. While many new managers receive no managerial training and must learn by experience, the lessons in this course can give you a head start on your road to becoming a successful, inspiring leader.

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Turn your video footage into a work of art. Learn the basics of rotoscoping to build creative effects and to isolate video elements for compositing or VFX. In this course, instructor and mograph artist Eran Stern starts by diving the history and origin of rotoscoping in film and video, providing the background for subsequent practical techniques. He shows how to transform video into natural art—from pencil sketches to Van Gogh paintings, claymation to chalkboard drawings, watercolors to graffiti, and ink blots, Legos, comic books, pastels, and much more. You can also find out how to use the same foundational techniques to isolate elements for compositing and visual effects work, and create simple character animations. Plus, explore the different software for rotoscoping, from Photoshop and After Effects to professional applications such as Mocha AE.

Creativity and innovation are now recognized as some of the most important contributors to economic growth. Thus, it’s imperative that work environments are structured so that creativity and innovation can thrive. But how can leaders translate the desire for creativity into something doable in their company? How can they lay the foundation for this structure? In this course, international speaker and trainer Denise Jacobs shows you how. Learn about the key directives that leading companies use to enhance engagement, reignite passion, and ramp up meaningful contribution. Discover how to prevent time pressures from blocking creativity, ask questions that spark innovative thinking, amplify the ideas of others, and more. By the end of this course, you'll have the tools you need to boost engagement and help your teams produce cutting-edge work.

Imposter syndrome can make even celebrated, successful people feel small. Sufferers of imposter syndrome often feel like they haven't truly earned their accomplishments, and that it's only a matter of time until they're found out. They credit their capabilities and accomplishments to things outside themselves, such as luck. Or, the "imposter" may be unaware that they are in the middle of a normal learning curve. In this course, adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, Dr. Valerie Young shines a spotlight on impostor syndrome and shares a healthy way out of this mental trap. Learn how to shift your mindset by reframing how you think about competence, criticism, and fear. Discover how to celebrate your successes and reward yourself for your efforts, no matter the outcome, as well as consider all things to be opportunities for learning and growth. Plus, Dr. Young discusses the arrogance behind imposter syndrome, and how holding yourself back is bad for everyone.

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Many elements come together to make an effective photo, whether it’s a magazine cover shot or a photo of a kid’s soccer game. In this course, Pulitzer-finalist Natalie Fobes takes you into the studio and on location to explore what makes great photos effective. The course begins with an exploration of composition. Next, Natalie details the role of color and light, describing basic color theory and showing how color contributes to the mood of a photo. She then covers how to see and work the natural light in a room or outdoor location, as well as how simple lighting setups can help you replicate the look of natural light. Natalie also examines movement and its role in still photography. She shows how a photographer can convey a sense of motion by blurring part of an image, or, conversely, how to freeze a fast-moving subject. She wraps up by exploring the importance of the “decisive moment”— that split second when you capture the storytelling photograph.

Traditional feedback often fails because it assumes and prescribes. People let their pent-up emotions and judgments take control, and make no effort to understand the context behind problematic behavior. As a result, both parties end up feeling defensive and start to talk past one another. In this course, adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, Jonathan Raymond shares how to let your curiosity guide conversations and communicate feedback that gets results. Jonathan goes over a simple five-step system to help you kick off a productive conversation about improvement without falling into the feedback trap. Along the way, he shares how to help people come to conclusions themselves and own the changes they make.

This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.