How do you learn best? - LinkedIn Learning Tutorial

- [Instructor] Every person is unique in how they learn best and LinkedIn Learning was created to be personalized for your individual learning style. In this video, I'll give you a quick overview of some features to utilize in order to match your preferred learning style. First, I'm going to click on the course here, Influencing Others. I'll go ahead and pause that right away and I want to point out something for visual learners. Over on the right hand side, where we can see the Overview, Contents, and more, if I scroll a little further, there is an option for Transcripts. I'll click on this and this gives us a transcript that we can follow along with during the video. Now I'm going to play the video and watch what happens. You'll see this blue line that will follow along as the person is speaking. - Despite our best intentions, many of our influence attempts fail. - [Instructor] So this is smart text and you can easily go to one of the sections here, click on it, and it will bring you to that point in the video. So this is a great thing to use if you want to bounce around to different areas as you read it. If you just want to have the text there as you're watching the video, you can have that by clicking on Transcripts. Now another option we have right inside of the video player is closed captions. So if I click here on the CC icon, you can see that we'll have closed captions now within this video. - Before we really begin. Odds are, you had good intention. - [Instructor] So you could see those closed captions now inside of there. Now if you only need audio, up here at the top in the video player, you can click on the three dots icon, and one of the options is to Switch to audio. So if you're someone who likes to learn while you're active or on a commute, you can switch it to audio only. Obviously this won't work for some of the courses where you need to be watching the screen but for others it will work fine. Now in order to be a more active learner, you can take advantage of a couple different features. The first is the Notebook feature. So, over here, if I click on the right hand side, and navigate a little further, we have this Notebook tab. I'll click on that, and from here, we can enter in notes as we're watching the course. And the nice thing is, is that they'll be bookmarked and attached to the place that we entered those in. So if you're someone who likes to be more active as you're learning and then go back and refer to your notes, this is a great feature that will save right here in your account. Now another one is Exercise Files. If you click this, some courses have exercise files that allow you to follow along, letting you be more active. To avoid distractions, you can switch to full screen from inside of the video player. So, here on the bottom over to the right, I can click Fullscreen, and it will now show me the course full screen. So this will block out a lot of those features and let you focus more on the course that is playing. I'm going to exit out of the full screen and then I just want to point out one other advantage with video learning. And that's if you ever need to pause or rewind a video, you can easily do that with these video controls. I can do it down here, I can rewind 10 seconds. I can go forward to the next video. I can also go here and see the progress I've made in the video and then decide if I want to move that somewhere else. Now most people are not exclusively auditory, visual, or kinesthetic learners but are some combination of the three, and these features here on LinkedIn Learning can be utilized when you want to customize the way that you're learning and the way you're interacting with the content.