Nearly 6,000 people have registered to use Lynda.com B次元官网网址� LinkedInB次元官网网址檚 training website with thousands of videos B次元官网网址� through the Greater Victoria Public Library.
Since the partnership , what have the people of the Capital Regional District been trying to teach themselves?
Rachel Rogers, a senior librarian in GVPLB次元官网网址檚 collections and technical services department, looked up the top completed courses watched by GVPL cardholders, not just videos started and stopped but B次元官网网址渨ho actually was interested enough to follow it right through. It was quite interesting because it was very broad,B次元官网网址� she said.
In the past year and a half, cardholders have watched 15,523 hours of videos on Lynda.com, completing 3,055 courses.
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Top 10 complete courses by GVPL users are:
1. Programming Foundations: Fundamentals
2. Photography: First Steps
3. Graphic Design Careers: First Steps
4. Guy Kawasaki on Entrepreneurship
5. Project Management Simplified
6. Web Development Foundations: Full-Stack vs Front-End
7. Introduction to Photography
8. UX Design: 1 Overview
9. Time Management Fundamentals
10. Agile Project Management Principles
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Lynda.com is usually accessible through a paid membership as an individual or with a business, but with a free GVPL membership, the website and its thousands of videos are also free.
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Anyone with a GVPL library card can use the service, the number on their card becomes their username. Their four-digit pin becomes the password.
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