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The internet has seen the field of online education courses bloom in the past few years. They’ve become so prevalent in fact, that prestigious universities like Harvard, Stanford, and Yale have started offering online courses that anyone can take. Taking these online courses won’t earn you any credits at these institutions, unfortunately, but they are an excellent way to learn valuable skills in all types of fields. Sites like Lynda.com, Coursera, and edX provide some of the highest quality courses to be found online. They work hard to curate and produce their courses, and they’ll charge a pretty penny for their work. Fortunately, the Timberland Regional Library provides every library patron with free access to Lynda.com and Universal Class. This lesson will show you how to help patrons sign up for these services and get started on learning online.
LYNDA.COM
LYNDA.COM
Lynda.com offers courses mainly focusing on business, software, technology, and creative skills. Though the scope might seem more limited than other online learning services, the courses on Lynda.com go more in depth, and there are numerous courses on different aspects of each subject. To get signed up for your new Lynda.com account, let’s start on the TRL home page. On the navigation bar, hover over the Research tab, and a drop-down menu will appear. Click on Lynda.com and you’ll be redirected.
On this new site you’ll see a log in screen asking you for your library card information. Once you punch that in, you’ll see another screen asking for a little more details. After putting in your first name, last name, and email address, it should let you hit save and continue.
After you’ve completed your signup, you should end up on your personalized home page! So special! There you are able to see the courses you’re currently viewing and some recommendations for new courses that might interest you. If you haven’t started anything, it’ll look pretty bare, but the more you do on there, the more it learns about you. Whole lotta learnin’ happening.
Lynda.com has an incredibly detailed course on how to use their site, way more detailed than anything I could put together. So rather than try to write second-rate instructions, I’ll just link the course here, and you can tell patrons about it if they need more help on the site. Since a lot of the content on Lynda.com is secured (you have to pay to view most of it), the link might ask you to log in first before looking at it. If you'd like to direct people to this course, tell them to use the search bar and type in "how to use lynda.com." That should take them straight to it.
UNIVERSAL CLASS
UNIVERSAL CLASS
The process for getting to Universal Class is pretty much identical. You'll go to the TRL site and go to the Research tab, and click Universal Class, naturally. Here's a delightful video by the Eastern Oklahoma District Library System showing how to sign up for Universal Class and use the interface. It's really thorough, and just good.
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