Dive Brief:
- Subscription-based online learning company Lynda.com announced Tuesday that it will offer more than 140 courses in a new IT training category.
- The IT training will be aimed at helping businesses and individuals keep their technology skills up to date.
- Course topics in the new category include hardware infrastructure, network administration, business intelligence, content management, help desks, cloud computing, virtualization, and big data.
Dive Insight:
In a broader sense category's courses focus on IT infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses, enterprise content management systems, and data analytics. Providing more professional development opportunities to IT professionals is, indeed, a good idea — especially when you consider how quickly technology evolves and the need for workers to keep up to speed with those changes. It's a wise addition to the over 3,000 courses available to subscribing members in 10 categories, including design, animation, software development, business, education, photography, and music. Lynda.com's subscription prices range from $25 per month to $375 per year.